Chapter 2 Making Contracts with Your Reader

This handout talks about the importance of a main idea. I have found out that it is important to have a main idea so that your reader knows what direction they are going in. Both the reader and the writer look for meaning, for a focus, for a main idea. The main idea is a contract for themselves and fir their future readers that establishes the reason behind the writing. finding main ideas in free writing. Just because it is a free write really does not mean that your writing has no point because all writing has some type of point that they are trying to get out. I mean you are talking about something, even if its just you saying that you do not like to write.