Reflection 1.1

While writing my first draft I was somewhat overwhelmed with all of the sources I found. I was trying to incorporate the best ones, but the most credible ones. Often my sources weren’t quotes but information of websites without authors. I still need to figure out the best way to incorporate that information and other sources. I also had trouble trying to determine how to attack this editorial and how exactly to respond to it- should I go through point by point? Or should I just talk about some of his points and present my own arguments? I’m not sure which of the two I actually went with- but I would say a combination of the two.

The comments I read were basically to use more sources, which reading other people’s rough drafts, I said the same thing to them. Sources are going to be a major aspect in our rebuttals. Sources build your credibility and help the reader to trust you and agree with you. They’re also good for presenting others’ ideas and their opinions that you agree with, such as introducing someone else’s plan to help binge drinking rather than making it your own.

From reading the comments I received, I realized statistics would also help my argument because this is a health issue and statistics on deaths, and injuries will be very beneficial in strengthening my argument. For my next draft, I would like to incorporate my sources better and have better structure to my paper, I feel like my rough draft was somewhat disorganized and not as meaningful as it should be.