"How I Learned to Program Computers"

These possible models demonstrate how to successfully write about a learning experience by showing how the structure of an article is one of the most important factors in the effectiveness of an article. Both authors begin with why they challenged themselves in their respective endeavors. By starting off explaining why they either learned how to program computers or learned how to live without Google, the authors capture the readers’ attention quickly. Once they establish their purpose, the authors move on to the learning experience itself. The authors give multiple specific examples of what was happening during their experience. This allows the readers to fully understand what the authors’ were experiencing. From this, we learn the importance of detailing the experience. Descriptive examples take the readers on the journey writers already experienced. If we do not give descriptive examples in our papers, we would be doing a disservice to our reader. Finally, the authors conclude what they learned, and why the experience was important to them. A conclusion is extremely important for any paper but I believe it is especially important for papers that describe lessons. Experiencing a lesson changes a person so if there is not a strong conclusion there can be no understanding how the author thinks now.  Above all, my goal is to mirror how these articles reveal how passionate the authors were in their endeavors.