Written Communication
I wrote the attached paper in a Writing and Inquiry (ENG-111) class in Spring of 2020. The objective of the assignment was to write a convincing and well-constructed argumentative paper about a topic of our choosing. For this paper I wrote about the issue of Net Neutrality and freedom of information, which is a topic that I feel very strongly about. I took the stance that governments should not be able to restrict access to the internet and the kind of information people are allowed to see. Additionally, I argue that corporations and internet service providers should not be able to restrict access to certain websites or make those sites more difficult to access for financial or political gain.
My first goal in writing this paper was to present a strong and convincing argument. I did this by first collecting as much evidence to support my stance as possible. I did this by searching up various news articles that spoke on the issue, some even with examples of how the repeal of Net Neutrality has already had serious consequences. I also strengthened my claims by finding statistical information about the questionable to entirely false claims about the regulations meant to protect the consumer being harmful to the financial prospects of internet service providers.
My second goal was to provide proper citations and resources for the reader to follow up on and use to form their own opinions on the subject. I spent a considerable amount of time researching for this paper, and I wanted that to be reflected to the reader in quantity and variety of my sources. I wanted my sources to be many and properly formatted and written so that if there was any question about anything that I quoted or referenced within the paper itself, the reader would be able to find the source that I used and read the article, paper, or video in question.
Overall, my goal was a to write a convincing argument with strong evidence and resources that would better convince the reader to not only understand my stance on the issue, but to potentially care about the issue more than they may have before reading my paper. The ultimate goal of an argument is to open or change someone’s mind on a topic, and I am proud of the amount of work I did on this paper and the amount of valuable information I shared.