This place was awesome. The sentence combiner was a really interesting exercise. I had never realized just how flexible writing was. There are 1,000 different ways to express the same idea. It was crazy just putting all of the pieces together and then rearranging them. This will be super helpful as I revise my papers. Whenever something feels clunky. Just take out the main ideas and try combining them differently.
Imitation was also really interesting. I had never thought of imitation in that way with writing. By taking just the structures of their sentences you aren't plagiarizing, but you're still able to take the part of their writing that makes them good. It's pretty genius, and just like with ever other skill the best way to get better is to copy the best until you're able to start making quality work of your own.
It is amazing to see all the different things you can do with language and writing. It's fun to manipulate sentences and phrases and rework them into something new and interesting! Glad you enjoyed it so far! :)
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