This I believe

1.a Is an important part of the 'This I Believe' unit, it says we must be able to think about the thought process involved in writing (otherwise called metacognition) to help us relate to the authors, and the diverse backgrounds from which they write. Metacognition helps us to realise that writing is part of human expression. Being able to relate your own experiences or other things you've read to the current text shows us that no matter where we come from most people deal with a majority of the same problems we do, just to a different degree.


6.c Is also a big one, it says we must be able to compair different forms of literature, from different eras and regions. This more or less goes hand-in-hand with 1.a, because by compairing different froms of literature we can see how much someone from Pakistan might have in common with someone from Chile, or from Alaska. This also exemplifies our personal or conditional differences. We can better relate to humanity as a whole using this methode because we can identify factors that may cause them to think differently or believe things we don't.