In the article, “Writers’ Histories, Processes, and Identities Vary” by Kathleen Blake Yancey, she talks about how writers are never made the same way and never have the same exact background. She continues to explain that they are different and that is why having one method of teaching writing would not be able to enable everyone’s growth the same way as others would. In the other article, “Writing Is Informed by Prior Experience” by Andrea A. Lunsford talks about how all writers have a background and their background can affect their thoughts on writing. She brings up examples such as writing as a punishment making a person always dread the subject and the act of writing. She explains how writing is associated with past experiences similar to other aspects of life.
Both of these articles relate having the idea that no one is the same in writing and it is dependent on the person like everything else. I personally have had a couple instances where I did a writing method, I was not a fan of. This was an occurrence that happened a couple times and it was usually due to it not being a writing style I have had a lot making me feel that it was almost a negative experience talked about by Lunsford discouraging my time with me thinking of it as an annoying assignment making me dread this type of writing. It also had me encouraged at times due to having a subject that is more interesting to me making me focus on this and enjoy writing. I believe if writing teachers read over these articles, this would allow the teacher to give the writers freer range rather than chaining them into a situation every time. I feel the digital world is making the writing process easier but less informative. This makes the background of writers less wide and making them more limited. This also allows writers to have less effort on situations they don’t want to write about showing a lack of effort and caring about the situation.
