Chapter 11 explains the importance of our very first assignment, which makes me wish I had read it before. Learning of how useful it is to copy and imitate other great author’s shows how beneficial writing has been to rhetoric. Being able to look into others writings allows us to improve our own writing. Reading aloud helps to develop the ability to make writing into something truly beautiful. Writing has a purpose, that is rhetoric, and being able to please people makes it more likely they will continue to listen or to read. There are certainly some writings where authors have not achieved the ability to make a sentence flow. Reading aloud to find where punctuation should or should not be is a great technique that I should use more and will try to use more. There is just so much to learn from previous authors and so many techniques that can be used and further developed by the writers learning from them. Something technology has taken away from the beauty of writing is texting. Texting doesn’t involve punctuation and most terms have been abbreviated. Texting is one of the main forms of communication and when we send more text messages than we simply write it changes the way we form sentences. We lose the ability to utilize punctuation and strong diction. We ignore it because it’s no longer necessary to use in order to communicate with people. Ignoring the tools we have on a daily basis really affects the strength of our ability to sit down and create a writing.