In “Writing is Informed by Prior Experience” Andrea Lunsford talks about how all of our prior experiences with writing affect how we write today. Growing up some people have good, or bad experiences with writing, maybe it was a punishment, or maybe it was a way to escape from reality. The point is throughout all of our writing experiences, we learn and remember the different ways we were taught. Similarly, in “Writers’ Histories, Processes, and Identities Vary” Kathleen Yancey talks about how our writing changes as we learn and grow in our writing career.
When learning to write there was always the 5-paragraph essay that we learned. I used to revert back to looking at my teachers slide show to look at her outline for essays and her examples for each part, even for the first essay that I wrote this year. However, I beleive that I have grown as a writer and learned that there is not one “correct” way to write. With that being said we could use that format for almost anything, a persuasive essay, a research essay, etc. I think that if teachers taught students to be creative when writing, and not giving them an outline it would help better our writing.
