Foundations Of Writing

          I found the information presented in these six chapters to be very insightful, suggesting real world strategies and methods to use like reading what makes you uncomfortable and breaching out to find local experts to talk with to improve your writing. I plan on using and applying these chapters to form a very solid foundation for any great writing. 

          What I found most helpful were the strategies on brainstorming alone and in a group. The hardest part of any writing for me is simply getting the ball rolling. My brainstorming was always sporadic and disorganized at best, so ideas like using memory prompts and mapping out ideas will definitely come in handy. If your like me and my friends, brainstorming together in a group never gets anywhere fast as someone always gets distracted and soon enough everyone's going off on a tangent. So strategies like setting leaders and time limits on sessions can help keep everyone focused and the idea to all agree on an end product will keep everyone at the table. 

          I think what I found most interesting was the section on avoiding logical fallacies. I couldn't help when reading it to notice how much you could apply what the author was talking about to everyday life when dealing with people in general. We've all been in arguments when someone whips out a dogmatism or a scare tactic and all it does is make the argument worse. We're all guilty of using ad hominem attacks when trying to prove a point and now after reading the section and seeing it put into words we can realize what we're doing and try to correct it. 

          All in all I feel it was a very enlightening read with lots of information packed into a few pages. Great advice for any aspiring writer to practice and apply.