#2 Responding to chapters 4 & 5

Chapters four and five in patterns for a purpose have given me lots of ideas about writing that I have not thought about before. I learned in this chapter that there is no way that you can get through college without a solid base of writing. I have always struggled with reading comprehension and writing about something I have read. Something I found in this chapter that can be helpful. There are three things that can increase your writing the first is Paraphrasing, we can write about what we read by saying it in a different way than the author did. The second is summarizing the main points in the reading. The third is quoting a line or phrase that you particularly liked in the reading. I really liked these points stated in this way because it makes writing for comprehension less of a scary task.