I was never really good at writing. In fact, I would dread the day that I was assigned something to write. For my American Studies Class in High School, we had to write research papers and they were the worst! The main idea of section 1.6 is that writing is not as natural as speech even though writing and speaking are not too different from each other. When speaking, I normally do not have to think up a thesis and an argument like I would have to when I’m writing but at the same time I can’t really hit backspace on my words when I’m speaking like I can when I’m writing which is the one thing I do not hate about writing! We wrote ‘Dear Future Me’ letters during my junior and senior year of high school and that was something I really enjoyed because it was super fun writing down my thoughts and then looking back at it really late in the year. I do believe that writing mediates activity as it says in section 1.5 because when I’m writing, I’m busy putting my thoughts down on paper without thinking much about anything else which I really like.
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