D#9, HW#1, Reading Reflection

This assgniments reading I think would have been very helpful if I didn't over analyze and over-think everything. I think I made everything far more complicated than it has to be. I kept re-reading everything coming up with different meanings each time of waht I thought the reading was suppossed to mean. Mainly the Toulmin method was what was messing me up. I look at it and I see it's merit and why it is a good outline to use, but I have never used it before (conciously) and I am used to doing things a little differently. I belive that is why I just kept confusing myself. Chapter 8 reading was useful but a lot of it was terribly repetative. Chapter 3 in Wadsworth however was easy to grasp and very useful in setting up a good thesis statement and forming our essays. I really liked Ch.3.