“If you’re stuck, try reading the topic sentences first,” Bex says. I glance over at her. She taps my paper with her pen. “Look,” she says. “There are a couple of sections in the article, and each of them covers a different topic.” “But then it just talks about something else,” I say. “Not quite,” she says. “I know it seems like it, because it starts out talking about research into academic writing and then switches into an anecdote, but that’s just to humanize the topic a little. It’s not important information.”
