Most teachers were not too pleased about that and repeatedly told me that I can't use that website as a source, but I was too naive to know otherwise. ... This little preparation really killed my writing grades in high school and years before that. ... First order has it flaws as well though, for example we do not reflect on what we are doing and we are more likely to be steered by our "assumptions, unconscious prejudices, and unexamined points of view" (Elbow 38). ... In Julia Alvarez's "Writing Matters" she goes on in depth about how to explore yourself while writing. ....

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