Reflection Paper Undergraduate 661 words

Technical and Social Skills Balance for IT Professionals

A review of research on why IT professionals need both technical expertise and interpersonal skills—covering communication, collaboration, and career advancement.

Technology

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 801 words

Legalizing Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Major League Sports

A persuasive speech arguing that banning performance-enhancing drugs in major league sports drives use underground and that regulated legalization offers safer outcomes.

Sports

~5 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 384 words

Sex Education in Texas: The Case for Comprehensive Instruction

A persuasive essay arguing that Texas schools must move beyond abstinence-only curricula to provide teens with comprehensive, fact-based sex education.

Health

~2 min read

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Rhetoric in "We Are Marshall": Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

Analysis of rhetorical devices—ethos, pathos, and logos—in the "We Are Marshall" motivational speech and their combined persuasive effect.

Communications

~4 min read

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Reflection Paper Undergraduate 373 words

Personal Persuasion Style: Storytelling, Evidence, and Empathy

A reflective essay on personal persuasion techniques, exploring storytelling, emotional appeal, repetition, satire, and how persuasion works in everyday life.

Communications

~2 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 445 words

Rhetorical Awareness and User-Centered Design in Writing

Explores rhetorical awareness in professional writing, contrasts genre-based and rhetorical approaches, and evaluates user-centered design principles with real examples.

Communications

~3 min read

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Reflection Paper Undergraduate 520 words

Staffing, Recruiting & Training in a Small Sales Organization

A reflective look at formal staffing plans, skilled recruiter traits, and training best practices in a small prepaid phone card sales company.

Business

~3 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 984 words

Attitude Functions and Persuasion in the ELM Model

Explores five attitude functions—ego-defensive, knowledge, value expressive, social adjustive, and instrumental—alongside the ELM's central and peripheral persuasion routes.

Psychology

~5 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 707 words

Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in a Failed Running Shoe Ad

An analysis of a Pearl Izumi running shoe magazine ad using Aristotle's rhetorical appeals—ethos, pathos, and logos—to explain why it failed.

Communications

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 574 words

God's Existence in Descartes' Meditations Three and Five

Explores Descartes' arguments for God's existence in Meditations Three and Five, analyzing the cosmological and ontological reasoning he employs.

Philosophy

~3 min read

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