This They Say/I Say exercise had me underline all transitions, pointing terms, key terms, and petition in my writing. I didn’t notice any big patterns except the use of multiple transitions in my body paragraphs and the using of repetition, as well as key terms, in the introduction to all my body paragraphs. I saw that I used mostly repetition and transitions. This is good because it makes my paper easier to follow, but it did empathize the lack of pointing terms in my paper. My ideas get slightly tangled in some of my body paragraphs and I feel like pointing terms, and maybe a few more transitions, would definitely help resolve this issue. Lastly, while I did use many transitions, it often felt like I was repeating the same ones. Trying to use new and different transitions may keep my essay from getting stale.