In terms of college writing, I think the most difficult aspect for me was writing in a direct, blunt fashion. I have gotten so used to my high school teachers telling us to be poetic and drilling it into us that we should never use first person because that makes the essay so much less professional. This has been even harder for me because personally I like a little poetry in my essays. I like writing in a way that gets the point across, but is still interesting to read; not dry and boring. For political science, I think the most difficult aspect was trying to view every theory that we studied as the right theory. I am a very opinionated person, so I immediately latched onto what I believed and sort of pushed away the theories I thought were wrong or impossible. That made it a lot harder to fully grasp the theories of each theorist.
On the other hand, in college writing the one thing that was the easiest for me was grasping the organization and way of approaching papers. I’ve always been a very organized writer, so the way that essays were proposed in both English and Poli Sci definitely was an easy thing for me to grasp. I think that getting that right off the bat also helped me get my ideas across because my thoughts were organized and clear. In political science, the easiest aspect for me was forming opinions on the theories we studied. Often in our discussions and papers we had to argue for a certain theorist and use evidence to support our arguments, and I found that that was really easy for me because I tend to form opinions as I’m reading something and then store that argument in the back of my mind somewhere.
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