I strongly disagree with this claim. Regulating your emotions makes you dull, and apathetic. While in arguments, yes, you should stay away from emotional arguments and claims because they are not factual, however, arguing itself is the emotion. It is how you feel about the piece you are writing and defending, the passion, that there itself is emotion that shouldn't be regulated. Critical thinking doesn't require such emotional intelligence or control, but rather being able to fluctuate it and allow it to improve your writing and your voice.

Bouncing off my other annotation, while we should use the rubric to help us out on writings and assignments, we should rely too much on it, because that also can make it harder to write a successful paper. It's a "It's not the destination, but the journey," of a saying. As a writer, you shouldn't be tunneled into just hitting all the checkboxes to have a bare minimum piece, but to also explore and take your own paths, while still following the correct way.

A lot of the times when I come across a rubric, I skim over the basics and write what the main question is asking, without really thinking the little things through, and this in often times, has shown holes of errors through my work. Reading and using the rubric actively is one of the best ways to guide someone through there paper, especially if they are not as experienced or if they are struggling. Rubrics arent just strict outlines that you have to follow but rather are "the road map" to success.

I feel like most people go into college with a fixed mindset, and professors are trying to rewire that with their students. They are trying to force them out of the comfort zone of a script that high school has fabricated for them. By the time a student has finished college or at least a class that has a message to be shared, they should leave with a growth mindset. Professors now want to see how you've grown from high school and how much "time and effort" you've put into your writing.

This line is a metaphor, and to me, it's saying that writing is an immersive experience. It requires academic writing to have some sort of depth, curiosity emotion, and persistence. It shouldn't be the same every time, and also, some specifics are just not for every other person. Students should try to adapt to their writing skills and become “travelers learning new cultures," or learning how to write differently to become better and more vast.

I find this paragraph, and this specific line, most interesting. Most of high school, you focus on organization and writing a paper properly; however, in college, writing demands intellectual independence, rather than just summarizing and following a guide. The main goal of a writer isn't supposed to be being perfect at what you write and checking off a list of what you're supposed to write, but instead a discovery and an exploration of your own personal thoughts and ideas.