The most important thing I learned is that you learn to speak better by exposing yourself in someway to people who speak better than you; Gee’s papers early in the course taught me that. Gee discusses how children develop literacy. For me personally learning how to use “academic” or “intellectual” language is definitely a goal of mine. I feel like I have a much better idea of how to go about that after this course. Learning how to speak in they way that intellectuals will inherently result in better writing, writing that communicates intelligence and authority. I also learned that  “writing is formulaic,” there’s an underlying structure that “good” writing has an underlying structure.