Syllabus Week

The first day of classes are always great. There is an endless flow of syllabi and teachers' warnings about how difficult their classes are going to be. I just got out of ENWR and luckily this syllabus doesn't look too challenging. Among some of the topics that we are going to cover, I think the easiest one will probably be creating contestable claims. On the other hand, I think that some of the more difficult concepts are going to be creating problem statements and acknowledging and responding to other arguments. I'm just glad that the first two papers are only worth 5% of our grade so we can ease our way into the semester.