{"id":106,"date":"2020-04-20T19:43:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T00:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.isucomm.iastate.edu\/cbrandon\/?p=106"},"modified":"2020-04-20T19:44:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T00:44:04","slug":"reflection-documented-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.isucomm.iastate.edu\/cbrandon\/2020\/04\/20\/reflection-documented-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection: Documented Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This last paper I did on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was one of the best writing I have done. My improvement in this piece was the use of the information I gathered from reliable resources and making sure to incorporate a variety of different views on the situation. I used a story from someone to show one of the stances I took in the paper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201c \u2018Are you&nbsp;buying your groceries&nbsp;with cash?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The first\ntime a stranger approached me in a Food for Less in a&nbsp;low-income&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; community&nbsp;asking me this,\nI thought, \u2018What an odd question.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What\ndifference does my payment method make? Why would I divulge that information \u2014\nto a&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; stranger no less? Then it hit\nme.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>When I politely declined, the stranger insisted.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018I\u2019ll give you $60 for $25,\u2019 she said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>She was\noffering to exchange her Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)\nbenefits, otherwise known as food stamps, for cash from me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Why Buying Food Stamps Is a Bad Idea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought this was a little instance where I really was able to communicate to the audience a specific stance people had on this topic through real-life experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The difference from this peace to past pieces was the amount of outlining and planning I had to do in order to make sure I had a good set up to my paper. It was hard to compile a list of good strong stances from different views on the topic because I had to find reliable sources for each stance. I have managed my time on this assignment better than any other in the past. I think that helped me to be able to get a good outline with great resources to get the viewpoints across. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This last paper I did on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was one of the best writing I have done. My improvement in this piece was the use of the information I gathered from reliable resources and making sure to incorporate a variety of different views on the situation. I used a story from someone &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.isucomm.iastate.edu\/cbrandon\/2020\/04\/20\/reflection-documented-essay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reflection: Documented Essay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.isucomm.iastate.edu\/cbrandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.isucomm.iastate.edu\/cbrandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.isucomm.iastate.edu\/cbrandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.isucomm.iastate.edu\/cbrandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.isucomm.iastate.edu\/cbrandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.isucomm.iastate.edu\/cbrandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.isucomm.iastate.edu\/cbrandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.isucomm.iastate.edu\/cbrandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.isucomm.iastate.edu\/cbrandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.isucomm.iastate.edu\/cbrandon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}