Assignment
Read the essay "Should Everybody Write?" by Dennis Baron. Take "dialectical" notes on the reading.
Dialectical notes involve two parts: "What is the author saying?" and "What do you think?". After reading a few paragraphs of the essay, take a note about what the author is trying to say--what point is being made--followed by your personal response. The personal response can be mostly anything, from a direct response to the text, to a comment on the author's tone, or noting a confusion you had over the reading, et cetera.