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In the readings of They Say I Say and The Omnivore’s Dilemma there were a lot of great facts that I discovered reading the two. In They Say I Say it was informing the reader of how to become better at introducing what a person has to say and to making it to what you have to say. Later it explains better ways of summarizing. It states that making a list will bore your audience so to make a successful summary you would have to make a balance of what the original author is saying with your focus on what is important to you. Then it introduces the proper way of inserting a quote in a piece of writing. For example you don’t just take a quote and put it in the paper without properly introducing it, in the book they called it “don’t be a hit-and run quoter” (Graff and Birkenstein, pg. 42).

In the Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan goes to a farm in Iowa to discover the ways of farming and to experience it in person. I actually was surprised on how much work there is to maintain a farm. There are things like plowing the fields with tractors and it not small fields, acres of fields. There is a lot more science to farming also. There is getting the right nitrogen, bacteria and lightning for plants. There is also having the right time to harvest and stuff like that. I mean I thought it was just taking a seed and putting it in the ground and watering it but there is so much more to it. All in all I discovered a lot more things than I expected in the readings.