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Well first off I would like to congratulate myself on the blog, I never thought I would be here, but that goes to show you that life is unpredictable. So with the wording on the homework assignment, “Post to your blog a response to Exercise #2 on p. 14, They Say, I Say.” I am assuming that because it does not say DO exercise # 2 we do not do the exercise but share are views on the whole template idea and its method of teaching. The first thing that came to mind was I felt the author was kind of daring the reader to come up with a better form then their template. “…explain why you believe your own writing method is preferable.” I must say I agree with the books ideas because it does give students (myself included) a good start on writing a good argumentative paper and also challenges students to look at a given subject from more than one angle. Also you can’t go wrong with a structured paper when you are a student, because then you know you are fulfilling the teachers wishes. In addition to this it also helps students use rhetoric better and more structured allowing them to be freer in both thinking and writing. Some might object of course, on the grounds that it does stifle your creativity when you’re given a structure to write an essay on and told what to write. Yet I would argue that in all aspects of life you need to learn the basics before you can learn to dribble behind your back. Overall then, I believe that these templates will help students not only write more structured essay but to think better and more independently. So was that not a well structured and thought out response on a blog to an exercise in a text book due on Wednesday?