By January 8, 2016, I will have attended this English course for a full year, which is three months longer than I had planned when I first signed up for the course. Even though I major in engineering and am better at math than English, I always thought my writing skills were excellent and most of the topics in our book were not new to me. Creating thoughts and typing them has never been particularly difficult for me; organizing my thoughts into a coherent ten-page document and documenting my sources is a whole other ball game. This argumentative essay was the first essay I had to write in about two years, and my research and organization skills were rusty. In my summary essay, most of the deleted points were due to formatting errors, and a year ago I was preparing to work in California for seven months for an internship at NASA, so I wouldn't be in school for the upcoming spring semester . I signed up for this course because I wanted to do something school-related while I worked so I wouldn't fall behind when I returned. As I quickly learned, I really didn't want to do homework after coming home from a full-time job, and as a result, I got very little done in the first five months of the year. In May I realized that I would need a course extension. The motivation I had for working on this course came in spurts that typically lasted a week or two until the beginning of last fall semester, at which point I worked on my assignments almost every week. Because I left so much time between assignments, I often forgot details of the sources I had and often had to re-read them to continue working. Having to write an annotated bibliography was helpful because I was able to go back and read some of my thoughts, but I ended up using different sources than the ones I wrote about in the bibliography assignment for my argumentation essay and I think I wasted too much time to read and reread the sources. Before starting my argument essay, I believed that since I had almost more than two months to write 10 pages, I could not pay attention to the preparation for writing the essay and that things would work out. My approach to supporting my second thesis point was to show how private space companies will need assistance to establish a space economy and also to show how a PPP is a complete solution to that problem. One of the ways I demonstrated the space industry's need for assistance was by citing the effects of government involvement as credit to the success of the rail industry. Similarly, I used the federal government's involvement in aviation as an example of how the government could assist in logistics. The basic premise of my thesis was that if two similar industries benefited from government involvement, then the private space industry could also benefit from the same kind of involvement. One way I supported this claim was by discussing the ways government involvement has already benefited industry, such as H.R. 2262, which grants “private companies the right to any resources they harvest from space – a huge advantage for the commercial space industry, especially for Luna