The final piece I chose is the third Major Writing Assignment (MWA) that my class was assigned. Our MWAs were three different types of essays. This one is the final essay we had to write, which was a persuasive paper. My title was “Continue Extending”, and I tried to persuade the reader to believe that the Washington State University extension programs are worth the money spent on them. I chose it to show my growth as a writer because it was the most difficult subject I chose this quarter. It challenged my summarizing skills to explain what the extension programs are and do, and why the college is obligated to support them within 3-4 pages. After writing my second draft of this paper, I felt pretty confident about the flow and clarity, but when some of my family read the paper, and I looked at it again, I found that it was very confusing and jumped around from topic to topic. As a result, I had to rewrite most of the paper and remember the organizational concepts that we learned in class and from our book.

This paper also shows my use of transitions and sentence types. I used a variety of both. It is my best of example of a writing piece that flows when it is read. In the sentence, “Many 4-H members own farm animals, and their knowledge benefits Washington state's agricultural program, but if WSU cuts its extension services, these benefits will be lost.” I used “and” and “but” to create a compound sentence, and by subordinating (adding a subordinate word such as after) “WSU cuts into extension services” with “if”, I emphasized the last clause in the sentence.