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What I Learned By Reading The Preface And The Introduction

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By reading the Preface and the Introduction I learned several new things about how to improve your skill in becoming a better writer. I was able to compare high school English techniques I would most likely experience in college English. One of the things I learned while reading was there is no teaching tool guaranteed to help the students promote precise thoughts. Comparing to high school, my teachers didn’t enforce a tool to help generate thoughts for each student to think alike in a subject because everyone thoughts are different. Another thing I learned was the template. The book uses a writing template called “They Say I Say”. What I took in was how the format helps you by giving you a place to start. The format also helps you set up an argument and as well finish the argument strong, its very useful. Its similar in high school, my teachers usually gave us templates that was a step by step, were we filled up with our arguments to set up our essays or writing activities. …show more content…

“They Say I Say” comes in place when engaging in a conversation with others. It says to makes the individual a active writer by giving them something well to respond to. In high school it wasn’t new to me engaging in a conversation was actually involved in templates. The way they taught us about templates was to connect engaging conversations to your writing. The templates used in high school had less critical thinking involved than college but, still effectively gave the students knowledge on writing. “They Say I Say” template helps breakdown the prompt into more depth and helps involved your creativity and truly make it your

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