My writing is my running career. It is not always pleasant to do in the moment, but I often find myself very proud of what I accomplish. Like a season of training, my skill has increased with repetition and practice, certainly over this semester. As I put the work in, I have noticed growth in my approach to writing, writing process, and skill at crafting an argument, and further my understanding of addressing and understanding human rights. I find that I write more deliberately now, like following a training plan rather than making up workouts as I go. I think more about what I am doing specifically to persuade my audience. Before this term I would merely lay out my writing as it made sense to me. I have since realized the importance of tailoring my work to a specific audience. Of course, using appropriate language depending on the reader goes without saying. But only recently did I really begin to think about varying my use of rhetorical tactics; emphasizing appeals to ethos, logos, or pathos depending on who the indented reader was. This meant appealing more to pathos where I could and it was more audience-appropriate in my video project, and keeping the focus on ethos and logos in Project 1, which was research driven. The concept of Kairos was also an important tool I picked up this year. Framing an issue in terms of a relevant happening was not something that had previously really occurred to me as necessary, but using mass incarceration and the recent backlash against it to frame my projects nonetheless proved an effective method investing the reader in my argument. My writing process has also evolved. Fine-tuning and revision have taken on an increased prominence in my procedure, steps I began to understand the importance of late in my high school writing stage but never was able to effectively carry out until this course. When training for an important