The concept explored in the article is how people write differently based on their authority status. Someone with a higher authority status tends to write more confidently and will openly share their own opinions on a topic as apposed to someone with a lesser authority status. I am not one hundred percent sure is agree with this. Yes, it is partly true but I think that there could be a lot more factors into play. For example, the topic and background of the writer.
If Robert and Jenna were asked to write about home remedies and Jenna’s mom was Caribbean, I suspect she written her own ideas a lot more boldly. As a students myself I know when I am completely out of touch or feel out of league with the topic I am writing about, my lack of confidence will seep through my writing.
I think the case is more often than not, with college students it’s not a lack of authority that leads to more timid and regurgitative writing but a lack of connection or understanding of the topic that leads to a lack of confidence.
When argues and fights the claims made by the authors, I think that confidence can come with a certain age and experience, after a certain age usually around freshman year of college is when students learn that they are in fact allowed to question information presented to them, and then they learn how to do so academically.
When I was a freshman in college I couldn’t even be convinced that the teachers much cared about my opinions. In fact my best strategy was to gauge what the teacher wanted to hear by the information that they practically spoon fed us, and give them that.
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