In reading this section in the St.Martin’s Guide to Reading book, I learned how to have a better plan going into writing a draft/paper. It also helped me working with arguments and counterarguments, which was a problem area for me on my last paper. The portion on outlining things was a review for me, but it never hurts to re-read something. Overall, I think reading this will help me with Essay #2 and I’m sure many more writing assignments to come.