The first assignment paper required us to write a visual analysis essay. To be honest, this is the first visual analysis essay I’ve ever written. The purpose of this assignment was to analyze a painting of our choice and be able to explain educational value and the meaning the given painting conveys. Our second assignment was synthesis paper, the purpose of which was arguing our own claim and support it with quotations and examples from the articles and essays we have read so far. By the way, the readings throughout the semester helped me to understand more about writing, helped become acquainted with another people’s perspectives and enhance my vocabulary skills. I really enjoyed most of the readings that were assigned. They served as a great source of information which I was able to refer to while writing my all three drafts. Our last paper, the research paper, was longer than the previous ones. We were asked to argue a claim relating to higher education and bring in proofs to support it while using certain templates and styles of writing as well as incorporating scholarly or academic sources. Throughout these three writings we were required to use the templates from the book “They Say: I Say”. As for me, I like this book not only for interesting stories, essays and articles in it, but also for these templates, which helped a lot to make my essays more meaningful by letting my ideas to flow more smooth into the paper.