I believe the way I refined and rethought my research question was with the Professors wise recommendations and how to move forward with the ideas behind my paper. There was a great deal of research and reading needed to be done for my topic of Psychedelic substances for therapy and the legislation about them. Often I would have to read very difficult scientific literature but as I often read scientific literature regardless I was able to find the big pictures of what they were describing. Also there were often articles that were not very helpful and from risky sources because of the nature of the subject. The audience played the role of listeners and interested parties looking to find more information about a developing situation in American science. This is because my audience for my example paper was mainly other researchers and those that would find this topic so interesting to go through it diligently. This process has broadened my idea of a theory of writing by showing me that there is much more to writing than I first assumed. I believed that writing was primarily what one created from their own understanding of something. Now however I would like to include that writing is not only your understanding but also the understanding of those whose backs you stood upon to write yourself. We all take information from someone else to better understand things so no one really is original. In that sense writing is kind of like a history of human knowledge and if characterized that way there is much more inherent worth that is recognized in writing. 

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