Promoting Change Through Writing Centers: Response

Casey brings up an interesting point as to the diverse styles of writing and which types off writing are crucial. On the extreme side, if there were only one standardized style of writing, would this be valuable? Personally, a variety of writing techniques creates an incentive for students to read. For example, not all students enjoy reading analytical essays or scientific research papers. So in this sense, these diverse writing styles benefit us. They assist in getting information across in different mediums that are appropriate for that subject matter. In reference to Professor Dolson’s comment, I believe that the line between writing-to-learn and learning-to-write is gray, and not clear cut. The reason being that often students will be engaging in both ways simultaneously without realizing it. They are related because each forces the student to analyze writing. When writing to learn the student must focus on sentence level to achieve a great paper. When learning to write, students learn how to create good sentence level variation.