The first two chapters in our English “Joining the Conversation” book are basically the guidelines to be a good writer. It tells us that a good and experienced writer has conversations with his audience. He treats his writing like a casual conversation at a party or a social gathering. He takes information from all sides and he puts it in to a piece of literature that speaks to the reader. The reader has to feel as if the words on the page are coming out of the mouth of the writer or character.  The second chapter moves on to talk about analyzing work and also starting to form a brain storm or free write for any upcoming assignments. The second chapter focuses on more of a learning how to be a great writer it gives you tools to become a better writer a better analyzer of work. While the first chapter tells you just write as if you were in a conversation the second one teaches us to pick apart the conversation and analyze the work. This text book is just a big manual to succeed in the writing world. I can tell as the year goes on and as we write these blogs we will see that the writing skills of each writer in the class will only improve in there writings. I know as I read the first 37 pages even I felt a little more confident in coming out to this to write a blog on an English text book of all things. I feel like this year in englisgh I will improve more than I have in my 12 previous years of writing in school.