Diag Essay

After learning writing techniques and learning about power in this class, I noticed that my writing was not as much different than now. There were a few changes I would want to make to my diagnostic now, but overall I don’t think I have developed significantly as a writer.

One of the first things I noticed which made me wince was my introduction quote, which started out with a very unreliable source. Although I liked the quote when I used it, it didn’t add much to my two-page paper. I should have used more reliable sources in order to add a base to my statements. Most of my arguments did not have back-up evidence.

In my paper, I talked about how power is gained even though it has a bad connotation. I mention ideological and political power, but in class, through reading Mann’s article, we learned about political, ideological, military, economic power. If I were to write this essay again I would know to add military and economic power.