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All writing begins and ends in reflection.
Whether remembering a childhood moment, reacting to a newspaper article, or writing a college paper, writers reflect on events, people, places, and ideas. The reflection gives rise to impulses, which gradually take the shape of words, which represent attempts to evoke, to describe, to explain, to evaluate, and to persuade. As writers shape their thoughts, they locate themselves in a time, place, and culture, giving the readers clues to their whereabouts and using these clues to guide their next thoughts. This locating and restructuring occurs throughout the writing of the piece and long after the piece is finished as the writer's readers seek their own meanings, and the writers write anew. As reflection is a messy and difficult process, sometimes leading to unexplored terrain, writers have developed signposts to assist them in completeing the writing task.