1. I believe the strengths of my essay are the small counterarguments I included. I also provided a lot of strong claims and facts to back up those claims. My voice is present and strong throughout the paper. One of my stronger paragraphs is the paragraph where I share my view as a non-athlete college student. I share how I feel about the whole argument as a regular student who doesn’t get recognized for my hard work, which I think makes a strong point.
  2. My essays have improved over the semester by my revising process. My revising process has improved tremendously over the semester. I never used to edit my papers and essays how I edit them now. My revising process has grown so much that I believe I am a better writer.
  3. “Gene Smith, the athlete director at Ohio State University, has said that if the NCAA pay ceiling were lifted and he were pushed to pay basketball and football student-athletes more than their full-ride scholarship packages, he would not expect to maintain the same number of sports” (McDavis 2). This quote and how it is framed works very well in my paper. I introduced it by using a counter argument and the quote is just the facts that back up my argument. I then explained how some schools can’t afford such compensation for student athletes and some schools may be considering cutting sports program altogether. I then explained how I felt about that and explained why I see it as wrong and unfair.
  4. My revision process consists of going through all my peer edits and editing whatever it is I was told to edit, including my professor’s edits. Then, I will read my paper aloud again and again until I can read it without making any revisions to it as I read it. This includes global and local revision processes. Once, I can read through it completely twice without making any edits, I am finished.