The main point of the article “Habituated Practice Can Lead to Entrenchment” by Chris M. Anson is that writing can become dry if there is no exposure. When writers get used to the same rhetorical situations they become comfortable and forget that their audience can change. The author relates repeated writing to changing gears in a car, it comes as a second nature. This causes problems when the situation changes and the writer can not adjust. The author suggests reflecting on what they have to do in their writing to meet the standards of the rhetorical situation.
As mentioned in the article a writing practice that has become automatic for me is creating five-paragraph-style essays. This has been taught to me all throughout high school so it has become simple for me to do. The advantages of some writing habits are good structure, clarity, and simplicity. The disadvantages of some writing habits include not adjusting to your audience, lost meaning, and a lost sense of awareness that is needed for good writing. Overall I think that habituated practice and automatic skills are a bad thing for writers. It limits the creativity and possibilities that writers have in each different circumstance.
