Assessing the writing that you do for yourself is a big no no! when your writing in a journal or for pleasure there is really no need to pick it apart and evaluate all the details. Now when you are writing a piece that is for others then there is a need for some assessing. The reading says... "We rarely get to explain to readers why we did what we did and what it means". Which is the case 99% of the time. Like, if what you wrote reached thousands of people across the world, your not gonna be there to explain to every person everything that was written about. So there is this great need for your writing to be very specific and make sure you convey exactly what you want the reader to feel and think. The next part of the reading goes into more details about how we can check ourselves, is our thesis clear, how does the beginning focus on attention on your main point etc.? The second part of the reading focuses on the response of your writing. How you can handle the response, revising the text and rewriting. Sometimes when you get feedback on your writing it can be offensive or even hurt your feelings...but you can not take it personally. The reading had a lot of helpful ways to rewrite. This time the reading wasn't so boring. It actually gave me a lot of ideas that i had not thought of before. Well that's all I've got. peaceee