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Commentary: Personally I like the look of the piece of this article a lot even though there are quite a bit of flaws I didn’t like. It was very information due to the paragraphs talking about the islands and telling us the history, some little fun facts, even some were about some stories of peoples experiences on that island or even what they found there. Personally I enjoyed the personal experiences more in this article because I love history and those stories are a little bit about the history of that island and that person. Other then the stories and the other aspects the author throw in a few paragraphs that describe isolated writing. The author compares islands to paragraphs. I can see where we comes from because they are different and not connected to each other and more. I agree with what the author states. He brings in a lot of good ideas like isolated writing is personal, narrative. Those are only a few that he put in the article. Over all its a good/cool article and I agree with what the article says about isolated writing and how it works and effects us.
Summary: The summary if this article is that on every island on the map in this article tells a story. Some tell personal stories, events, geological differences and traits. Most importantly the author is trying to get at that the island represent paragraphs and that the paragraphs are isolated just like they are in a paper or essay. The author also brings up that isolated writing is narrative and that isolated writing is personal etc.
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