ARM-RS

This semester all my courses are writing and reading intensive, I have hardly any exams. Because of that, I needed to practice using some strategies to help organize my readings and put me in the mindset of building key components of my papers while doing the readings; ARM-RS did just that. I chose to use this strategy in my PHI 107 course for my next paper due next week. The topic question for my paper was (as chosen) Is Knowledge true justified belief? as you will see later. The main emphasis of this strategy is, as Dr. Blumin stated in her book It's All About Choices, "is forcing you to continually focus on the topic of the paper and read for that purpose"(p.136). The strategy is set up in steps as follows: 1.) Clarification of the paper topic. Make sure you understand what the paper asks for. 2.) Read with your paper's purpose in mind. Annotate and make markings for later reference.

3.) Go back to the assignment requirements and evaluate your progress toward the paper. 4.) Continue to read(in chunks) until you have enough information for the paper. 5.) Create an outline to organize your thoughts for writing the paper.

After this strategy was accomplished It was very easy for me to just simply follow the outline and work toward completing the paper. What I liked about this method is that its short and simple and, with me, those are elements of success!