Deadline #2, HW#1 Reading Reflection

I really enjoyed reading The Bedford Researcher. When I first read our homework assignments I nearly collapsed. I couldn't believe all I had to do. I thought it was going to be impossible for me. As I started reading, all of the information seemed to have easy concepts. Most of the things I read I've learned in high school and really put me at ease. One thing that was really helpful was the research log. I'm using a notebook now to write bits and pieces of information I need. Another thing that was helpful was the MLA style shown in chapter 18. It's been a while since I took English 101 and it was nice to have a reminder on how to format. Chapter 5c was useful in the fact that I had such a close minded idea on how to research. I've read newsgroups and web discussions, but until reading that chapter I would never have thought of using them in a writing assignment as sources. Everything's an Argument was a little bit hard to read. It wasn't hard as in actually reading it, but it was basically saying exactly what the title says. I didn't realize there were so many forms of arguing. If I had known that I might have used some of them growing up with my dad. I'm sure I have and just didn't know it was arguing. I think that for right now I'm okay in my reading assignments. It seemed overwhelming at first, but now everything seems tolerable.