Superman And Me Argument Analysis

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The kind of writing I expected to do in college is called academic writing. So far I know some of the preconceptions about academic writing require a lot of critical thinking and I need to find a dedicate topic that is appropriate to my audience and relevant to the prompt that I will be assign. I also know that in academic writing I need to promote a inform argument. To promote a inform argument I need consider what is the subject is taking about and what I know about the topic. As for the story "Superman and Me" by Alexie Sherman, After I read the part of his story of finding paragraph, he explain to us that the paragraph are compare to each member of his family and he describe the place he know is like a paragraph itself. He also show us

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