My own goal for the course is to learn how to write scholarly essay.

As a student in the school of engineering, I need some skill to write strong research paper. Therefore, I desire to learn how to support my idea and argue with good sources with technique.

Since the pedagogical goal of the course is to discern good sources ethically, analyze other writings, identify the argument at various media, and find sources from archives in UIUC, there is an intersection between my own goal and pedagogical goal.

The intersection is techniques to write research paper, and find good source that can support my argument. I hope I can learn more about discerning sources ethically, and write solid argument paper.