Hopefully, you are attaining new understandings about academic writing that you can take into your discipline. You are developing your voice, along with your writing skills, as you move through this course. People experience personal and professional epiphanies all the time: sometimes these are aha moments that awake us to new ways of thinking, and sometimes these are more subtle shifts that lead to new ideas. The epiphany is an understanding that creates a change. Prewrite and outline a persuasive essay that takes a firm stance on an arguable concept and persuades your reader of your stance effectively via argument strategies and the integration of scholarly research.The fourth stage of the Hero’s Journey is the epiphany.