I thought Thompsons “Public Thinking” was interesting, I never realized that so many people are writing in a day or how many people use the internet in the form of writing. I could connect with this article because specifically through our class we are contributing to these statistics as we speak.

Thompsons main claims seemed to be that reading has become more popular than writing as reading is being more pushed to students. He gives examples on how writing helps us “evaluate”, “helps clarify”, “the effort of communicating to someone else forces you to think more precisely, make deeper connections, and learn more”. I never knew these things about writing and know that I know this I am start writing more.