Author Archives: Isabel

Blog Post 11

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Isabel

In the article “Writers’ Histories, Processes, and Identities Vary”, Kathleen Blake Yancey talks about how writing has evolved and how personal impacts are what illustrates your writing. Writing started out with writing on walls in caves and has developed to … Continue reading →

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Blog Post #10

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Isabel

In both “All Writers Have More to Learn” and “Learning to Write Effectively Requires Different Kinds of Practice, Time and Effort”, they talk about how a skill to write does not come naturally and will take practice to get to … Continue reading →

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“Revision Is Central to Developing Writing” – Doug Downs

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Isabel

In “Revision Is Central to Developing Writing”, Doug Downs talks about the importance of peer reviewing and revising your paper after a first draft. A first draft is made to find where problem areas are, and fix them. Having someone … Continue reading →

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“Failure Can Be an Important Part of Writing Development.”

Posted on October 12, 2023 by Isabel

In “Failure Can Be an Important Part of Writing Development”, Collin Brooke and Allison Carr focus on the idea that the only way to become a perfect writer is by failing a few times. No one can get a perfect … Continue reading →

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Writing is Not Natural

Posted on October 5, 2023 by Isabel

In “Writing is Not Natural”, Dylan B. Dryer talks about the timeline of humanity, written language has only existed for roughly 5000 years. Today, language is apart of every day life, and is very much over looked as a great … Continue reading →

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“Writing Involves Making Ethical Choices.” by John Duffy

Posted on September 28, 2023 by Isabel

In “Writing Involves Making Ethical Choices”, John Duffy talks about how writing is forming relationships between the writer and the reader based on ethics. When writing, whether on purpose or not, writers are trying to build a relationship built on … Continue reading →

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Habituated Practice Can Lead to Entrenchment

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Isabel

In “Habituated Practice Can Lead to Entrenchment ”, Chris M. Anson talked about how when you learn something, and it becomes a habit, it’s hard to break it and it can tend to make you fail later on. Something becomes … Continue reading →

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“Writing Addresses, Invokes, and/or Creates Audiences” – Blog Post 4

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Isabel

In “Writing Addresses, Invokes, and/or Creates Audiences”, Andrea A. Lunsford talks about the rhetorical triangle. It’s an idea that there are three main points to writing; writers, audience, and text. The writer brings up a man named Walter Ong. He … Continue reading →

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Writing Is a Social and Rhetorical Activity – Blog Post 2

Posted on August 30, 2023 by Isabel

In Writing Is a Social and Rhetorical Activity, by Kevin Roozen, he talked about the ways that the simplicity of writing down a note or email is for yourself and also others around you. There is a connection between writers … Continue reading →