Critique Of My Essay By Mary Louise Pratt

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When writing essays, I have noticed a pattern in where I always want to write about soccer. Since, soccer is a big part of life, I find it easier to talk about. There are two issues that can evolve when I keep writing about the same topic in my essays. Firstly, I wouldn’t be learning or exploring new topics or ways of thinking. Secondly, it will get boring for my professor to constantly keep reading the same essays that I write with different examples. Hence, in my second essay, Mary Louise Pratt, Arts of the contact zone, I decided to talk about Facebook how there are many different aspects that make it a contact zone. It allowed me to dig in deeper to the little details that make Facebook a contact zone. I began to have a different perspective

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