Journal 8
Throughout these pages in “They Say / I Say”, I learned a lot about the writing process when it comes down to expressing my own thoughts on a certain topic idea. I found it very useful to when arguing a point, always incorporate what “they say” or the point that you are trying to argue to give what I say a foundation to expand off of. If I do not introduce this then the reader may start to feel as though they are lost in my text. The author always suggest to always look past the basic assumptions of the topic given that not everybody that may read the paper has the same level of understanding on the subject and to explain fully at least at the beginning the point you are trying to make along with the idea you are arguing and then to sprinkle in those same reminders throughout the text. Although over-doing this aspect of the same paper can have the same effects but in reverse, you need to limit the amount of times you return to the argument you are talking about but also keep that argument relevant in the reader’s mind in order to not stray away from your own thoughts as well. The author brings up the idea of “returning” sentences I found very beneficial that essentially bring back your sentence and the reader to what you are arguing in order to maintain a structure in your writing and help the paper stay on track with my own thoughts. I found this reading to be very useful in the sense that ith the templates it helps create a paper that stays on track and does not vary from the topic that you are arguing.
