Self-reflective Statement:

Core Value 1. My work demonstrates that I used a variety of social and interactive practices that involve recursive stages of exploration, discovery, conceptualization, and development. For my definition argument I rewrote it two times trying to improve my writing. Each time I made a new development of how I went about writing my paper after getting feedback from my first draft. The first draft of my definition argument took a lot of research to put together as well as the other versions of my paper. I explored and discovered different concepts of anxiety that dogs experience and defined the details of what anxiety is. This was my most rewritten paper and I probably could have rewritten it more but didn’t being okay with the grade given. Defintion Argument 

Core Value 2. My work demonstrates that I read critically, and that I placed texts into conversation with one another to create meaning by synthesizing ideas from various discourse communities. I used many sources for my research paper, twenty-nine total. With each source I provided the purpose behind it and then the reason I used it for or will use it for. By using my sources I was able to combine my three papers into one full research paper. I discovered different points of view from the sources that either supported my claim or went against it but both were helpful since I had to complete a rebuttal argument.  Annotated Bibliography 

Core Value 3. My work demonstrates that I rhetorically analyzed the purpose, audience, and contexts of my own writing and other texts and visual arguments. This was done through my small research proposal. With the start of my annotated bibliography and my thesis proposal I was able to create and analyze the purpose of my paper. The start of my annotated bibliography gave the context of my writing and the purposes behind my use for them. As for the audience I tried to address that in my thesis and definition argument, as I defined certain things for a specific audience that basically knows nothing about COVID Dogs (pandemic puppies). https://wordpress.com/posts/my/rowancomp2.comhttps://wordpress.com/posts/my/rowancomp2.com

Core Value 4: My work demonstrates that I have met the expectations of academic writing by locating, evaluating, and incorporating illustrations and evidence to support my own ideas and interpretations. This was shown through my purposeful summary or annotated bibliography. I used multiple different sources to support my writing. With the multiple sources I provided an explanation of what they provide evidence wise and how I will use each source. I believed that dogs who were gotten during the COVID pandemic lockdown were more prone to having separation anxiety, and while that was hard to prove and I could have done better with my sources like going to an actual vet and asking for records of anxiety during the COVID era. https://wordpress.com/posts/my/rowancomp2.com

Core Value 5. My work demonstrates that I respect my ethical responsibility to represent complex ideas fairly and to the sources of my information with appropriate citation. With each paper I made sure to provide more than enough sources to back my evidence and with each rewrite I quoted each source and made sure to cite them properly. I take this part of my writing very seriously as any sort of plagiarism is not to be tolerated. As a writer I want either original work or work that is being used but also being given credit. https://wordpress.com/posts/my/rowancomp2.com