Conversation is the spoken exchange of thoughts, opinions, and feelings.
It could also, mean the communication of two people. I think writing is like a conversation because you are writing down your feelings, and opinions instead of expressing them out through conversation. For example if you don't understand something in a text book or an article you can always ask the teacher and they would explain to you what the author meant.
You make some good points here. The book talks about how writing a paper is like a conversation in that your paper is responding to someone else's idea. Also, you write in a way that you know your readers can understand, so there are a lot of people in a paper--it's like a conversation. .9/1
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