Meeting the Second Bachelor: Argument (B)

It's been known that I'm someone who LOVES to argue. Sometimes it can come off as a negative characteristic of my personality, but I've always viewed it as a part of myself, even if I will interrupt every person I talk to because I simply cannot wait to express how I feel on something; I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just more exciting than you. 😏

When introduced to Argument the second it stepped out of the limo I knew it would be one of my strong suits, if not my strongest. Argument allowed me to express my views on a certain topic--broad or narrow--  no matter where I stood. 

Personality: open, allowed me to express myself

Looks: many appearances and different styles, doesn't seem to be able to take one side on a topic

Brains: huge, had a lot of information to back up points

Score: 7/9 for the number of opinions it had.

Even though I do argue my opinions a lot, there have been times where I couldn't back myself up in a concrete way. This is one of my irrational fears, being made to look like an idiot (AP Lang taught me that I'm NOT an idiot, by the way.) Learning about argument helped me find solid evidence for any points I was making. 

Argument was the most secretive, yet most exciting contestant to step out of the limo all night.

One huge collaboration that helped me with argument was REHUGO. Although REHUGO could be used for many purposes, I found it extremely helpful for the argument section of the AP exam. Throughout the year I procrastinated contributing to REHUGO but once I began watching more movies and documentaries and began getting more involved in what's going on in the world I began to contribute more. I found so much information on literally ANY topic on our REHUGO doc and it helped me an immense amount inside and outside of class. I was able to back up my points with detailed evidence thanks to my fellow peers on my argument essays in class, and also had an easier time debating issues going on in the world with my family members now that I had an immense amount of opinions and viewpoints available at the tip of my finger...literally.

Annotating debate pieces and writings based off of the government were topics that really interested me, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading those and developing my own opinions on them. It felt so good to finally be able to have an opinion in my mind and be 100% confident with it. 

Any and all reading that included taking a position on a topic helped me so much with argument. Before I joined AP Lang I constantly thought of deeper questions but had nobody to share them with. The time we spent on argument helped open me up to the rest of my classmates and we were all able to converse and not only openly express our opinions on pieces and events we came across but have deeper discussions that led to some very eye-opening tangents.

When it came to start writing the arguments full-out, I had some trouble switching my brain from the RA mindset, however. We had spent the longest time on the RA-- which was good because I felt so confident about it in the end-- that it took some time away from argument. I wish that we could have spent more time on argument because it would have been less stressful and would have allowed me to improve my score like I did with RA since we had a longer period of time. 

Compared to RA though, argument had much more to it. Besides REHUGO, we had to do so much research and reading every night to expand our knowledge and be able to pull from different sources during the AP exam. While this was a great challenge, being physically beaten with the massive stack of reading by Kenza eventually paid off. On the exam, I was able to pull from different sources we cited in REHUGO and from my own life and felt pretty good about my score on the argument section. Let's see how it goes.