I chose this essay as my final artifact not only because it was my latest essay, but because it models my writing progression, and during the writing of this paper I learned so much about rhetoric and my own writing style. This essay was assigned by Dr. Harker in his intro course. He emphasized the need to use an evolving thesis throughout this essay. I was petrified, as I had never had to use an evolving thesis before this moment. I lost sleep over the evolving thesis. I was so scared that I would not implement it correctly, but I knew that I had to do it. This paper was optional. Usually, I would opt out of an optional paper, but I had a lot of respect for Dr. Harker. I knew he wanted all of us to at least attempt it. Well, I survived the assignment, and according to Dr. Harker I did well. It felt really good to try a new writing style and then to receive a good grade on said assignment.