In my mind, the concept of being able to write something in general made sense to me. The idea of sitting down and writing about anything in general seemed plausible and honestly seemed easy, however now after reading the chapter wr\itten by Elizabeth Wardle I can now see that the task of writing in general or learning how to do so is something truly impossible. Sure writing is something that we can all do, I can put a sequence of random words together to make a sentence however that sentence wont make much sense without a purpose. Our knowledge of writing has been crafted over years and years of experiences, successes, failures and everything that falls in between. Being a freshman and learning that when you open a persuasive essay, you can start with a question has forever impacted the way I think about writing an introduction paragraph for a persuasive essay. I like the concept of not being able to teach someone how to write but rather teaching them how to improve their writing, working with the skills someone already has to improve something they were born with. In the piece written by Catherine Savini the way that she describes making a problem to then solve when writing something is a very very smart way to begin writing especially if there’s writers block, something similar that I often do that is incredibly common is a outline, though it’s different than finding a problem to solve it has the same idea where it gets you thinking about the writing assignment before you begin writing it.
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