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Notebook Writing: The Best Purchase You Ever Made

Task:
Choose a purchase you or your family have made that you consider to be your best or favorite purchase. Imitating
this descriptive piece from Vox, write about what that object meant to you and the effect it had on your life in two
or more paragraphs.

Process:
After you choose a topic, brainstorm on a separate piece of paper potential anecdotes, analogies, descriptions, and
details you can use to describe both the purchase and its role in your life. If your claim is this purchase had a
profound impact on your life, then your stories and details should be vivid and impactful enough to make your
audience understand the importance of this purchase.

In December of 2018, I bought the most important thing. A brand new gaming laptop.
My middle school provided us with ipads but they were not able to run certain
applications well and they were very inconvenient since you can not use it like a computer.
At home, I had a lenovo with an Intel Core i3 processor, but it can not run most school
applications since it was very old and outdated. Because I was in 8th grade and was going
to high school in 7 months, I convinced my mom to get me a new laptop since I will be
needing it for my school work. At that time, I was a big gamer and considering that I had
straight A’s, my mom bought me a gaming laptop. With my new laptop, I no longer have
issues using school applications. Also, when I was using the ipad provided by my school, I
would have trouble connecting to the wifi. There was an application called iboss where
you had to log in with your student id and password before using an external wifi, but
there were a lot of times where the app glitches and you can not connect to your own wifi.
However, my new laptop has no problem since I can make it automatically connect to my
wifi.
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