In the reading “All Writers Have More to Learn” by Shirley Rose she describes to us that writing abilities are not a one and done deal. Writing requires a constant effort in order to see improvements. As we learn and grow as writers we learn what styles and techniques work for them, those then become a baseline for them. A writer will never know everything that writing entails. She explains that the learning process of writing does not end at the school level. We learn that after school we seem to learn different way that may not have been introduced to us. This could be a caveat that we need to be shown these different types of writing in school that way we become more educated on how to go about them. There is writing present everywhere so we are all constantly improving it even if we do not know it.
To go along with Shirleys writing, Kathleens writing of “Learning to Write Effectively” has a similar concept. She takes makes us realize how familiar we are with writing. She compares writing to swimming and how we become familiar with the feeling of being in the water, the same goes for writing we become familiar. There are many different ways that we all go about practicing our writing techniques. If we combine multiple writing techniques to practice we improve at a better rate. The two readings both hit the same idea of how we prepare ourselves and practice writing. We see a heavy amount of this practice in our schooling time. So ensuring that we make vigilant effort to teach us these ways to find our own techniques is really important.
