Difficult: Wow, this was quite a unique chapter, and something I've never really connected mathematics with. The first difficulty I had was putting this knowledge into context . Having never written a mathematical paper before, it was a lot of new information to soak in at once. It's hard to imagine what kinds of things I would write in a mathematical essay, or what I would prove or accomplish. I've never done the type of research I do for a writing class for a math class before, so this whole chapter was an introduction to a totally new concept for me.
I also wasn't sure by what it meant about "that" vs "which". I've never really consciously had to decide which one was correct and which one wasn't, so it would be useful to hear some more examples on what the rules are.
Interesting: This whole chapter was interesting to me!! I've never thought consciously about the word choice used in mathematics, and the different rules for writing and communicating mathematical ideas. It's really awesome, because think about how hard it would be to learn math without good textbook authors. And those textbook authors learned math from other mathematical writings, so it's like a constant chain of keeping mathematical truths alive and flowing, When my Writing 150 teacher says that writing is used in literally every subject, I now have no disagreements at all.
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