Before  the texts that we read in class my view on writing was pretty broad and generalized. I personally am not much of a writer mainly because I felt like there were too many things that went into and it required much more work than necessary but these texts helped me widen  my perspective on this. For example one reason I didn’t feel like writing was for me was because it was so formal.When ever I wrote I felt like I needed to write as professional as I could and use complex words that I didn’t even know the definition of. However I was wrong and in the text “ They say, I say” chapter 9 they emphasize this greatly. They talk about how you don’t have to set aside your voice to make a writing piece “good”. This was something I was so used to doing mainly because that’s what I was taught and because I felt like no one would take me seriously if I didn’t do so.Not only did the texts change my perspective on writing but also on reading too. In William Zinessers “ On writing well” his book mainly focuses on what goes through a writer’s mind when in the process of writing something for the audience. Based on what he wrote I realized how much the writer has to actually think about when they write and how it might be perceived to the audience. That saying as a reader it made me notice the little details when reading and maybe why/how they might have added a certain thing into their writing.