1. According to Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, writers should use the model of  “entering the conversation” in the writing. They talked a lot about the advantages of the model. First, after mastering the model, we don’t need to pay too much consciousness to think. it can help us to construct our own writing immediately and also shows some simple but crucial steps for writing. Then the model can be made public to help us state our ideas, to help us avoid answering yes or no challenging questions, and to present more arguments. In addition, the model can be used to enrich the sentence level in our writing and can be extended to any length we need. It can also help us make many challenging actions, help us open the text, and let us have more ideas and arguments to add to the writing. Furthermore, we can also summarize it by converting back and forth between texts based on our requirements. Finally, the model can help us make our writing more original and creative. Once we get used to the model, we will be able to improvise to adapt to new situations and purposes and can help us find other models in our reading.

2. I agree with the idea that learning to look at artwork can help us analyze other situations. I think every coin has two sides, It’s not as simple as it appears. Learning to look at artwork can increase our insight and allow us to discover more details from different perspectives. Moreover, learning to look at artwork can also exercise our critical thinking ability. It enables us to observe and analyze the situation from multiple aspects, understand the feelings the author wants to truly express by combining the background of artwork and more elements, and distinguish the right and wrong of things. It even extends to our lives and our writing. In addition, good insight and critical thinking allow us to quickly identify the author’s purpose in writing and reading the article and what the author wants to reveal. Through a detailed analysis, we can get more information and inspiration, and can quickly write a good article with rich structure and hierarchy. At the same time, good insight can also help us find more problems when reviewing our own articles so that we can correct our mistakes.