Choose one of Reid’s “Metaphoric Musings” and explain how Reid’s identification of that particular “Metaphoric Musing” helps you become a better academic writer. You are required to use a direct quote and a paraphrase with proper in-text citations from Reid’s essay to earn full credit for this discussion board post; no responses are required. 
Your post is due Sunday, midnight, but do it before Sunday so you can enjoy Halloween! 
Here is the Works Cited citation (all lines but the first of a Work Cited entry are indented [BB is being weird about formatting]):
Reid, E. Shelly. “Ten Ways to Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Student.” Writing Spaces 2, edited by Pavel Zemliansky and Charles Lowe, 2nd ed., Amsterdam, Netherlands, Amsterdam University Press, 2011, pp. 3–23, wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/writingspaces2/reid–ten-ways-to-think.pdf.

One of Reid’s “Metaphoric Musings” that was discussed in “Ten Ways To Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Student” was the idea of being very precise when writing so people don’t either misinterpret what you mean and know exactly what you said is what you meant. In one of the ten ways that was discussed in the text, Reid used the idea of the little green ball by saying that if you say a green ball without saying exactly what shade of green the ball is or how big or small the ball was, the audience will have their own perspective of the green ball. In the text she states“I care that you know exactly what I’m thinking, the more the details matter to me, then the more information I need to give you”(Reid 6). Which indicates that if you are not very descriptive then the audience will know exactly what you meant by what you said.