Addition to Blog 5

I learned from the reading in M & R that the first concerns are high order concerns. It is more important that issues dealing with thesis and focus, development, structure and organization, and voice be clear for the writer than the lower order concerns of punctuate, spelling, etc. When asked by my tutor what was the central issue of my piece, I had to think about what I was really trying to say. That question helped me to understand that what I wrote about was not really what I wanted to write about.
The strategy we used was talking aloud. I read my paper and then told her what it should have been about. I took notes and rewrote the piece now that I knew how to improve the paper.