Uptake Post #1

    Uptake is loosely defined in the article, "A Great British Baking Adventure: Antecedent Knowledge, My Dog, and a Dry(ish) Cherry Cake" as, "the way we think about new ideas until they make sense to us (ISU Writing Program)." In my own opinion uptake means using your prior knowledge and applying it to new ideas as a way of making sense of the unknown. In our daily lives we use uptake all the time. Every new thing we encounter leads to us using our prior knowledge and skills to make it more familiar or overcome whatever it was. This is an especially helpful skill to be able to use in english because you are constantly reading and writing new and more complex things.

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