I chose to read Xena’s response, in which she highlighted the same arguments that I did for both essays that we read. I liked the way she perceived Baker’s argument. She said that he argued for following your gut and taking risks on yourself, which is not the first way I would’ve interpreted the text, but I completely agree with her and I see how she made that inference. In contrast, I said that the argument he made was in itself the joy he felt when recognizing the affect his writing had on readers, but she took that from the text and expanded on its implication. Baker was not presuming that his work would get special attention and he did take a risk turning it in because he knew it did not follow the format the teacher was requiring.