my story

Looking back, I started out thinking I would have a non-bias standpoint through the majority of my research and then discover an answer. I believe for the majority of my research I did a good job sticking with this, however I did a full 180 between my two rough drafts of this paper. I went from backing public school education as the best means for education because students will pay less overall. However, when looking into it more, the private education showed more and more benefits as research and writing went on. Considering smaller classes versus lectures. From personal experience I have noticed in my first year at college, the large lecture classes are the classes I struggle in and the small classes I do my best in. In the large lectures I feel like I fall under the radar and fall behind, I feel helpless when I get behind and if I were to fail, no one would notice. However, in the smaller classes there is someone making sure you're tracking and willing to help. This topic was chosen by me because I chose Rutgers over a private university and I wanted to know if I made the right decision, while I still think Rutgers was the right choice for me, I just have a small price to pay and I have to work harder to make sure these large lectures don't effect me.

painting a picture.

In my project, I feel like not many images will be able to help me prove an economic argument, so I will use my personal standpoint in my images, here are two images. One from a small class and one of a large lecture hall. Which one do you think would be the best learning environment?

how i will go about my project

since my first rough draft, i have made some fairly big changes to my debate. I have changed my position and re-edited my paper completely and started from scratch. The sources that I found began to make me change my mind. I started out trying to prove my case that public schools were overall the better choice for a student, but as my project began to unfold I began to look at the bigger picture and changed my position all together. My outline now is as follows:

I divided my argument into three parts the personal, social, and economic standpoints on the differences between public and private universities.

Personal: Student teacher ratios, learning environment, counseling systems.

Social: "party schools", reputation, entitlement

Economic: tuition, tuition payback, salaries after graduation, job opportunities.

With everything I organized my paper into those three sections then at the end I wrap them all up together.