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My First Reading Response
I found the process of writing the reading responses quite tedious; especially when it came to my first reading response. My first reading response was focused on the article, “What Every American Should Know”; inquiring whether the use of Hirsch’s list to determine if one is culturally literate is well-thought-out. I found coming up with witty counterarguments tiring and difficult, the end result being I had to create an outline (which I barley do), to aid me in the development of this ‘blog post’. After creating the outline, I had little-to-no difficulty completing the rest of the reading response, since it clearly informed me of topics to discuss in each paragraph. Moving on, I found the process of writing the second (about being non-binary)

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