In addition to the direct benefits you can gain through assistance and feedback from other writers, you can benefit from providing assistance or feedback to other writers. By helping another writer generate ideas, you can practice effective brainstorming strategies. By participating in a planning session, you can learn something new about planning your own documents. By reading and responding to documents written by other writers, you might pick up some new strategies for organizing an essay, crafting an introduction, incorporating illustrations, or using evidence effectively. Perhaps most important, learning how to analyze other people’s work can help you assess your own writing more productively.