Feelings about my Rational Argument

 

My Rational Argument made me feel frustrated at the start. I felt very confused on what to do, I read the examples and requirements but still was unsure on just how to begin. I remember in Highschool we’d have detailed guidelines that would help break down the writing to make it easier, and as some one with ADHD and anxiety it would help me feel more capable of completing the assignment. Since we were not presented with such a detailed and descriptive outline I decide I would ask Chat GPT for help. With this it helped greatly by breaking down the essay. It start with breaking down the intro into a hook, background information, and thesis statement.  With the body paragraph it broke it down into a topic sentence, explanation/evidence, analysis/reasoning, and a transition to the next point. After this is done with every topic/problem I would discuss, I would go into the counter arguments, where I’d acknowledge an opposing viewpoint and then refute it. Lastly I’d end the essay with my conclusion, which I would have summarize my main points, restate my thesis in a conclusive manner, and lastly have my call to action, implications, and or my final thoughts. With this I was able to start my essay, and start to form my argument.

When starting with my argument and writing about the problems that social media cause to adolescents, I also ran into the problem that I felt that I was somewhat repetitive. My topics/problems, which was influencer culture, comparison culture and mental health, and photoshop, all have issues that entail into one another. With this I just felt I was explaining the same thing over and over again. Though as I had a teammate review my work she said that I wasn’t really repetitive like I thought I was, and that each topic/problem lead exceptionally well into one another. This helps me give me some relief since I thought I had to start over and find new topic/problems to talk about. Another issue I’ve dealt with in the Rational Argument is procrastination, as someone with ADHD and anxiety I tend to often due this. I worked on every single other assignment I could work on except this one. This is because I felt frustrated with the repetitiveness, and how I thought I barely had anything done. Though in an attempt to try again at the paper I went back to see how much I had written. I copy and pasted into a new doc, deleted the outline and spaces, put it into 12 font and double spaced it, and to my shock it was already 3 pages! This gave me a great deal of relief, and new inspiration and motivation to continue on with my essay. With this I continued to worked on what I knew, and could do, and then lastly added my research and completed my conclusion, thus giving me relief and satisfaction that I did it!