Starting the Paper

Well the semester is coming to a close and, while it has been a very busy one, there is still more for me to do in all my classes. Now that I have a day, it'll be good to get a start on the paper. Recently, in class, we were assigned to put together a small outline of our paper. This actually helped a lot in figuring out what to do for the research paper. The style of the assignment was to have an argument about a topic which, due to the nature of my topic of choice, was something that didn't really have two or more sides and arguments. Due to this, I had always been thinking on what I should write about because there isn't really an argument against flexible concrete. However, by doing that in-class assignment, I realized that there is an argument against it. The material is actually fairly expensive when compared to standard concrete. While, there is no one actively stating, "We can't use flexible concrete because it is overly expensive," it is something that every individual who is conducting the studies on the material has kept in mind and have attempted to find ways to save on cost, including studying about using recycled fibers (discussed in another blog post). So this helped me in setting up the paper and discussing the counter argument about cost and helped me to have an argument against the counter argument which is that the cost over time would be smaller due to the possibility of less construction to fix potholes or cracks.