The latest reading assignment was on assessing your own writing. The first thing I could relate to was when the author said some of a writers best work comes when they are not worrying about the writing being right or wrong. I related this to when we type on this blog or on an instant messenger. One thing the author said I did not personally agree with. She said some of her student's best work comes at the end of their papers. For me, this tends to be the worst part of my papers. I liked how the passage talked said if the audience does not know much about your subject or may not agree you may need to provide more evidence. If they already know about the topic or are likely to agree then you can provide less evidence. This is good advice when trying to decide how much evidence to find.

The next section was on getting response and revising. The first couple of sentences in this section jumped out to me because I can directly relate to them. They talked about when you play guitar or basketball practice makes perfect. I do both of these activities so it got my attention. It went on to talk about how writing is the same way. If you need to re-write then do it. One part of this section talked about revising to sharpen your focus. It says to make sure every paragraph backs up your thesis. This part confused me and I'm not sure if my narrative paper is correct now.