Over the course of the semester, I have learned a wealth of knowledge and grown a lot because of it. But one thing that hasn’t changed is my view on academic writings. Jim Corder wrote, Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love, a book in which he speaks about how people change and grow. Corder says, “We see only what our eyes will let us see at a given moment, but eventually make a narrative of ourselves that we can enjoy, tolerate, or at least not have to think about too.” (Corder 16) This goes to show that people judge things that illustrate them in a way that makes it most easily understood by themselves. For example, if someone suffers a terrible break up they are most likely going to unknowingly depict love to be a train wreck.