Ever notice what happens to a river at its delta?

• The direction of the river loses focus, and the river starts going in several directions at the same time.
• The river's effectiveness also loses focus.

Writers can learn from these observations.

The writer trying to overcome all of a journey's challenges at once is like a river at its delta.

1. The writer loses focus, and
2. The writer loses effectiveness.

The Learning Challenge at The Delta of Learning is for the writer to:

• be patient when learning to write well,
• choose just one aspect of your writing at a time to work at improving, and
• perservere in learning to write well.

1. Familiarize yourself with the content of this webpage and its linked webpages.
2. Write a 300-500 word reflective essay in which you explore how you might use some of that information in three different contexts:
• when you are writing,
• when you are interacting with classmates, and
• when you are reading a text composed by a non-student writer.
3. Submit that essay to your instructor.