All Writers Have More To Learn

In John Duffy’s article, “Writing Involves Making Ethical Choices” he talks about the importance of the reader and writer being ethical. Duffy explained how important it is for a writer to create a relationship with a reader. Though, Duffy says that some writers don’t always focus on being ethical while they write. When someones writing is unethical it brings the reader to the conclusion that the writer doesn’t care about their work.

Ethical expectations of writers:

• Honesty
• Morality
• Values

Ethical expectations of readers:

• Respectful
• Noble
• Open minded

When writing a paper we have to be careful with our ethical values. We have to consider who our audience is when writing our papers. Duffy stated, “Writing involves ethical choices because every time we write for another person, we propose a relationship with other human beings, our readers.” When we write our paper ethically we can create a relationship with the reader without speaking to them directly. As a writer we need to be honest and have values in our writing to create that relationship. But, the reader must also be open minded to create that relationship.

In Chris Anson’s, “Habituated Practice Can Lead to Entrenchment,” he discusses the cons of habitual practices. He stated that certain behaviors can lead to entrenchment. Though entrenchment can sometimes be a good thing, it can also limit aspects in peoples lives. it could potentially change the way people respond to new things or situations.

I have become entrenched with expanding my vocabulary while writing papers. This became entrenched when I started my senior year of high school. I used to hate writing papers, but I learned to enjoy it my senior year. In the past year, I have grown in my vocabulary. One advantage of this skill is my papers become more consistent. One disadvantage could be that I repeat the same words.

In “Writing Addresses, Invokes, and/or Creates Audiences,” Andrea Lunsford talks about the relationship between writing and its audience. Andrea argues that understanding the potential of writing can change someones paper completely. teachers nowadays try to broaden the way they teach students how to write. They want them to explain what they’re effectively and make their paper easy to comprehend. Getting the audience to interact and talk about the writing is one of the biggest goals of writers. When the audience interacts with the reading it shows that they understand what is being talked about in the paper.

In the past papers that I have been assigned, the audience of my paper has never been said. For the longest time I was writing my papers to my teacher, as I presumed that he or she was my audience. Reading this article made me realize that I need to write my paper in a way that any audience can read it. I’ve learned an effective way to interact with the audience in a way that they comprehend what my paper is saying.