Overwhelmed with numbers

The most interesting story out of our assigned readings that I found was the story entitled "Lury Numbers on Glossy Pages!". I have never really noticed how magazines trick us into buying or even looking at their magazines. When you look at a magazine the numbers really do pop out at you. If you're not interested in the cover of a magazine, you're definitely not going to be interested in taking your time to even take a peek at the articles. I think it's interesting how different people analyze different texts different ways. I think this is interesting but someone else might thinks its a horrendous article.

Ridiculous Revising

(pgs. 208-218)

I agree that it's much easier to free-write than to worry about what words you're putting down onto the paper. There's something about just writing down whatever comes to your brain that's much more enjoyable than figuring out if you're writing in the past or present tense or if all your verbs match up. I dont think it's easier to have people that know you do the editing, I think it's easier for someone who doesn't know you to give you their opinion so that way your feelings don't get hurt and you're more likely to listen to them.

Reading is greeeeeeat!

487-517= I think that all of these stories have good details about how the person feels about the english language. In the first story I think that the writer is more conscious of what other people think of her than what she thinks of herself. It seems to me if I wanted to learn something I would learn it and not care what other people thought of me. I really like the third story of Malcolm X. To me it just proves what you can get accomplished when you put your mind to it and figure out how to do something. The fourth story is interesting to me also. My grandmother is from Kentucky and even though they speak english there they still have different sayings, even different words, that they use.

199-204= I really like to freewrite. I'm not very good on focusing on an idea that I have nothing to say about and writing a whole page on. Freewriting to me is easier because you can write whatever you want and in the end its almost always guaranteed that you will have written something down about the topic on hand. I also like lists ALOT. To me it is most satisfying to cross something off of a list. I think that when people write essays outlines are very important, you could get your whole essay done and over with before you even have it typed out!

-cramming my head full of info!-

Honestly, I really liked reading this. Most books that tell you all you need to know about writing are boring! It seems like they all follow a guidline for boring books. This one, however, doesn't do that at all. I was never bored, and I thought the particular story about the young man and his father was a very good example of the things that they were trying to point out (details, dialogue, reflections, etc.). I also like how this book lays everything out for you, like how to edit a paper, and also it asks you questions so that you can try and teach yourself how to catch these certain things.

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