Self Evaluation Blog #2

I did not have any grammatical errors in my draft, but what I found most difficult for me was finding a counter argument and then responding to it. I could not find anything that negated my topic, so I picked a more specific source in which Social Darwinism is used to explain society. I think what worked well for me in this essay was the fluidity of essay and how each of my points transitioned nicely to the next. The only thing that did not exactly according to my plan was finding the counter argument I wanted, but I think I utilized the source I found adeptly. I have not really learned anything new about grammar and my point of view has not changed. From the lecture, I mainly took the day that the broad statements were posted and we had to choose if we strongly agreed, agreed, disagreed, or strongly disagreed. A lot of the comments made during that lecture I felt were either very rational or not very rational at all but were still expressed in a fairly intelligent manner. So, I tried to express the distinction between an anti-rational intellectual and a rational intellectual and the various prerequisites one must have to truly be a rational intellectual.