After having reread and annotated later I was more particularly paying closer attention to the various evidence he was using and/or bringing into his writing on the topic of procrastination. I noticed that it primarily was a narrative of an economist George Akerlof on how he meant to ship something but made a connection that something else shipped more rapidly. While rereading I noticed that the author uses higher level vocabulary that personally felt like it aided in his confidence and power while writing on procrastination. A few examples of the high-level words the author uses are “lamenting”, “quintessential”, “perplexing”, etc. This was rather key since it just adds the fundamentals to his writing and just gives the author a sense of credibility from my perspective. In addition, I was also able to notice that the author was immersive on the detail that was being shared on the topic of procrastination one example was when he stated, “According to Piers Steel, a business professor at the University of Calgary, the percentage of people who admitted to difficulties with procrastination quadrupled between 1978 and 2002”. Not only does the author bring in a relevant figure into the subject of procrastination but also the data gathered from a collective questionnaire also brings in the historical part by bringing in dates and correlating that to procrastination. Which in this case was over how procrastination has grown over the year periods of 1978 to 2002. In doing so this promptly informs the reader with statistical facts and the time period that procrastination has worsened since there are more people who feel that it occurs. Another great example, the author uses is “That’s why David Allen, the author of the best-selling time management book “Getting Things Done,”…the vaguer the task, or the more abstract the thinking it requires, the less likely you are to finish it”. This information the author uses towards the end was key to concluding his writing since through adding evidence on procrastination, it also gives the essential summary to what procrastination is which is to delay tasks/objectives till later which eventually will need to be done but rather just leave it for the last second to deal with.

– Brian Tenecela