Cute Textbook

I must admit this was the first time i have opened my english book. My first reaction to the book was that i loved the colors, and how it was decorated. Not to mention the floppy pages were easy and fun to flip. Aside from that, after reading chapters one and two i realized it's exactly like any other english book i've had. The first chapter is all about preparing for research, which everyone has learned since the 5th grade. It talks about how research projects develop in a situation from a question that someone asks. It describes how to organize your information into graphs and webs to make your paper flow and make sense.

The second chapter is directed more towards research and the writing process. In the book it says that all writing has a rhetorical context. Admittedly i did not know what "rhetorical" meant so i looked it up. The book continues on to give examples of "research in action" which shows a nice snapshot of a man standing with a weird smile on his face. I learned the process of writing is: prewriting, researching, drafting, peer reviewing, revising, editing, proofreading, and publishing. Well, i shouldn't say i learned that information, because actually, i've known that for years. Im not saying that i know everything there is to know about writing, but these chapters were common sense to me, probably why they were chapters one and two.