Reflection to Draft #1 of Argumentative Report

Esmeralda Santa

English 21003, Section M

Professor Matyakubova

October 3, 2017

Reflection on first draft

                                                                        My reflection

        Writing the argumentative report had its positive and negatives. One negative in writing this 

report was correctly making an appeal to logos. I had trouble organizing my claims and connecting it 

back to my thesis. Often times I felt as if my claims supported a more general topic of suicide where 

as my thesis was talking about suicide in only schools. When writing my final, I plan on changing 

my claims, so that they reflect my thesis. Second another issue I ran into was providing enough 

evidence. I wanted the audience to find me credible which is why finding scholarly journals for my 

thesis was a little hard. For the next time, I will do more research in other databases for scholarly 

journals.

         One positive point about my report was that I was able to keep a subjective tone throughout the 

report. I wanted the audience to know my strong opinion on this topic and how important it was to 

address it. I also feel that the argumentative report was a little easier than the informative report 

because you're able to incorporate or thoughts by taking a stance. Second, I also like how my appeal 

to ethos was convincing. I tried to target the audience so that they feel sympathy about the innocent 

children taking their lives. For my final report I also want to include a story of a person who 

committed suicide, so that the appeal is stronger. Overall, my report needs more improvement in 

order to get my point across.