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 writing complete essays, articles, and books with a whole strategy behind it. Writing, although it varies with each person, is taught similarly throughout time. Writing can be different with each person writing, because of what they have learned, experienced, or preferred. In “Writing Is Informed By Prior Experience”, Andrea A. Lunsford also brings in the idea that writing comes from experiences as people grow up. Lunsford wrote about the different memories people had when learning to write, which can later cause someone to like or dislike writing. Also, Lunsford talks about how different writing tasks call for different responses, if you write the same way for everything, it can lead to failure. Both writers talk about how past experiences cause you to write a certain way or feel a certain way. But Yancey brings in the idea of how writing has developed and been taught. While Lunsford brings in the idea that not every way that someone has learned to write something will be the same for everything else.
In the past, I have been taught the three body paragraph essays, and that was all throughout highschool. As I have gone into harder classes, I have learned about making my stories be more cohesive, and not stay to just three paragraphs to tell my thoughts or opinions. The three body paragraph essays were always hard for me to follow. I like to write, but condensing my words has always been a problem. Keeping thoughts and ideas in only three paragraphs when there is more information to be shared was always an idea that was hard for me to grasp as I learned to write. For schools, especially when learning to write essays or in general, the idea of the three-story thesis needs to be taught sooner. It was helpful when I learned about it, because I then realized my ideas can be spread out, and talked about more to find a way to share everything that was necessary for my essays. The digital world has made a huge impact on how people learn to write or grow as writers. The media has allowed us to look up techniques, and read about them, to grow our writing on our own. It has also allowed us to see what others are writing, that is becoming more acceptable, and they can learn to write like that more often.
