WRITTEN COMPOSITION: Expository READ the following quotation.
Other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our
path, but the lesson to be learned is always ours.
-Anonymous
THINK carefully about the following question.
Is it better for people to learn from others, or is it better for people to learn on their own?
WRITE an essay explaining the best way to learn new things.
Be sure to -
• clearly state your controlling idea
• organize and develop your explanation effectively
choose your words carefully
use correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and sentences
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Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.