General Writing Is a Myth

When I first read Elizabeth Wardle’s “You Can’t Teach ‘Writing in General’”, it felt like I was finally learning the truth of writing and its true obstacles. Especially when Wardle exclaims that this is due to the context, audience, purpose, medium, history, and values of the community all impact what writing is and needs to be in each situation (Wardle 30). I completely agree with what she says in the text because it’s true. Not everyone really understands how much each research paper, article, essay, and story serves a purpose and how each can make an impact towards an audience, whether it’s minimal or major. The same way I agree with Elizabeth Wardle can also be said for Catherine Savini’s “Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way into a Writing Assignment”. The reason for that is because I find her ideals kind of weird but right. From what I can understand, she treats looking for solving problems (even in writing) as if they were like math problems, which kind of makes sense. But the thing is that problems are unexpected and random. Overall, Savini does bring up some good points like when she explains “We all deal with problems of varying complexity on a daily basis. If we are successful in dealing with life’s challenges, it’s likely that we follow a particular process for meeting these challenges, whether we are conscious of it or not” (Savini 53 (3 of 20)). I think both of these articles blend together really well due to their similarities in terms of what they want to address to the people who think writing can be generalized.

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