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The authors of the articles “Excerpt from Rope Burn” and “Excerpt from Speechless” tell us that communication can be hard. They show it’s hard through articles, for example, in the article “Excerpt from the Rope Burn”.

It briefly explains in paragraph 8 that it states, “Richard,” he said. “You need to find your writing voice.” This sentence shows that Richard doesn’t know how to communicate in written form. The article also states in paragraph 3, “Mr.Best’s comments were always something like “I want to know what you think, Richard,” or “Your thoughts are scattered. What is your point?” This showed that Mr. Best was trying to get Richard to communicate better with his writing. These two pieces of evidence show that even though Mr Best tried

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