The preface tells me that this book is mainly about students’ writing, and these students’ papers are selected from the best papers that were written by UCSB students. In other word, it is an students teaching materials. From reading starting line, I can improve my writing skill and change my writing style as I read plenty of high level papers, and this give me an brief standard of what is the standard for a good English course paper. One different that I noticed is Starting Line uses students’ writing examples as “articles,” and it makes Linguistic students more easier to understand since the language that students write are similar. Another interesting point that I notice from reading the first essay is that most of the articles in Starting
