Writers’ Histories, Processes, and Identities Vary By Kathleen Blake Yancey and Writing is Informed by Prior Experience by Andrea Lunsford

In both articles the authors mention writing in relation to what all we have previously learned in the past and what all is needed to be accomplished to obtain the writing complexity that we have already learned. In Yancy’s article she relates writing to humans in general the past, our culture, our demeanor, anything relationship wise so we can relate the writing to it whereas Lunsford uses earlier interactions such as what all they the writers have learned, how they utilize it, she even related it to math in a way by using the term X when she is describing how when she makes a mistake that she will not be writing the mistake over and over again as they do happen often. Overall, both writers use past events, relationships, and many other ways to associate writing with many different common everyday writing and non-writing occurrences and they both explain them thoroughly.

 

In my early ages I went to an academy/ Charter school I learned a certain way if writing there that was entirely different from any other way that I learned in the future when I hit 6th grade and then 8th when I went into high school. I wasn’t taught until like 9th grade how to properly write an essay. IN 9th grade I learned the formatting to write an essay it was a little confusing at first but once I caught on it was fairly easy to learn. I learned the specific way that everyone learned to write an essay it was write an intro 3 body paragraphs on 3 topics related to your title and a conclusion or a wrap up. I was told by all of my teachers that this process was used in college, and I should be prepared for that, and I was very prepared for that. I the long run now that I am here, I’m now learning a lot of new things that I think should be implemented into high school, so kids are better prepared when they hit college to adapt to better writing and not stay stuck in high school.

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