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The reading first started out talking about different approaches and lenses when you are writing. It describes lenses as putting on a certain point of view for a certain topic that you are writing about. It discussed different examples from the Simpsons, Lost, and Office Space and how they are all different lenses to look through for your reading. The explained how two people may be writing about the same topic, but if they have different backgrounds then they may have wrote two different papers. The is because of different experiences that people go through in life, and you can see in their writing how it affects their thoughts and opinions on things.

The next section went into talking about your writing process that everyone goes through. As we discussed in two classes ago, you first have to understand what you are writing about. Second, are freewriting and brainstorming, then outline, and then constructing a good thesis. A good thesis is a complete short sentence that is stating your opinion/argument. You then have to write an introduction, bodies, and conclusion. After you draft and edit and revise your paper you just have to wrap all the pieces together.

Next the book discussed pathos, logos, and ethos. I always had a hard time understanding these definition, but because of how well you and the text explained them I fully understand. Logos is the reason you are writing something, pathos is like your "passion" for writing, and ethos is the credibility.

Basically, this reading taught us how to look into our writing and make it better. It wanted to teach us ways to write and that it's normal if your paper may be completley different from someone elses even if they are on the same topic. I feel much better going into writing my final draft for our narrative paper!

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