While reading chapters 4 and 5 in Patterns for a Purpose, I found a couple things to be quite helpful. In chapter 4, what mainly stood out to me was the section about personal response. I try to use this technique, but I regularly forget to do it. I don't write it down necessarily though. I usually just think about it in my head. So I thought it was helpful to remind me to actually write it down.
In chapter 5, I thought it was all very helpful and that the information in it was useful. I really liked the section about description. Marissa and I had a discussion about description. It seems that we both tend to use the same old words and phrases, and just get in the habit of using the same things. So I really enjoyed this section to help me out with my bad habit of being boring and plain in my word choice.
