"DQ" from Wed.

Since I wasn't in class, I figured I'd just respond to the pages read.

I really enjoyed these pages. This is one of the first textbooks used for any of my classes after 4+ years that actually speaks to me in a way that I can actually get into it and let the text soak in. Reading how the author wrote about entering a conversation through writing made a lot of sense to me and really kind of made me think about why it was so hard to write papers a few years ago. I've always had trouble writing papers, as it is definitely not one of my strong points. Maybe because I was writing out of my range in order to satisfy the pipedream of impressing the professor, who knows. But thinking about writing papers in a manor close to free writing, right off the brain, makes me really mad that I didn't.

I also really enjoyed that piece he pulled from the author writing about the Dodge commercial. That author really did paint the perfect picture that was that commercial. I think I really began to enjoy that chunk of text after he wrote about how the aim of that piece was to not explain the commercial but to use it to support and even further an completely seperate argument that he was trying to make. I need to do that, it's good.