Throughout the course, in writing for the social sciences, we have completed three papers; The Personal Artifact Essay, The observational Essay, and the Research Subculture Position Paper. Writing these papers helped me improve my writing skills. We learned about a total of eight learning outcomes; 1. acknowledge your and others’ range of linguistic differences as resources, and draw on those resources to develop rhetorical sensibility 2. enhance strategies for reading, drafting, revising, editing, and self-assessment 3. negotiate your own writing goals and audience expectations regarding conventions of the genre, medium, and rhetorical situation 4.  develop and engage in the collaborative …