Reflection on the Issues Paper

For my issues paper I actually went through with writing about localization and how it would benefit humanity's chances of survival during a zombie apocalypse. I found my topic really easy to write about because of my love of zombies and interest in predicting how a zombie attack would play out in our world. I My paper focused on the negatives of a globalized economy, transportation, and communication, and how those industries have weakened our world to a zombie invasion. Although mythical, I was able to find legitimate sounding facts about zombies from two books on the living dead. I then proved my point in my paper by using real statistics from legitimate sources, such as the US Census Bureau and the US Energy Information Administration.

I don't think I learned that much by writing this paper, but I got a lot of good practice on citing sources in my paper. It was beneficial to practice paraphrasing as well. I was glad that we had an extended period of time to work on this essay as well, because I felt really burnt out after I wrote my first draft and needed a long break before I could rewrite.

I was so proud to turn the paper in today, it was such a relief. I was stressed at the beginning of the semester just thinking about the issues paper, and now that it is done it feels like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. My final thoughts, I enjoyed my topic, but I hated the amount work I needed to put into this essay.