In Chris Anson’s, “Habituated Practice Can Lead to Entrenchment,” he says that writing the same way for an extended amount of time can make it can make less creative. As a writer when repeatedly writing a similar formats, the format can become second nature. This can cause writers to always fall back on the type of writing that they are comfortable with and make other formats hard to accomplish. However, some writers use a pedagogy approach, as in different types of assessments and writings so that they can recall other methods, and are not constantly doing the same things.
When writing I always follow the five-paragraph rule for an essay. However, this format may not always be the most fitting format or style to write in. This became automatic for me throughout high school, as my teachers would expect it. “Intro, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion,” the teachers would force down our throats. The advantage is that the five-paragraph rule is a good format in most cases, but to make this a habituated practice is probably not the best for a writing student. I think that habituated practice is both good and bad. Without the practices, a writer would have to start from square one every time, as if they did not know how to write. However, once you are in a hit they are hard to break, so writing in different genres could be very difficult.
