Throughout the class I learned how to actually use outside ideas and integrate my own thoughts into them. I also learned how to correctly use outside ideas to support my own ideas and claims. I started the class with little experience integrating my own ideas using other articles, but I quickly learned ways to not only confirm and add to articles I read with my ideas, but even learned to start to challenge articles. In my showcase progress this learning outcome is easy to see in the way I argue against James Gee, and use Lisa Delpit and June Jordan to support my claims. One issue that I have developed on, but still really need to work on is my signal phrasing. I had specific trouble actually showing where my claim started and where the scholars ideas ended. Another thing that I did that I actually fixed was that I accidentally structured a sentence in a way that it put words and ideas in the mouth, sort to speak, of one of the  Scholars we used. My text-to-text connections grew, especially through the paper I used as my showcase project. This is due to the extensive work we had to do in connecting the three scholarly articles into one paper with our own ideas. Over all my skills in integrating ideas greatly grew over the semester and should help as I continue to develop my writing ability.