letter to Rios blog number five

          Dear Rios


I thought that what Young had to say stuck to me the most in this week`s readings. The one idea I would like to talk about is the example he gives about an accounting professor assigning his class to write a poem(pg19). I found this to be very clever. Creative writing is not just for English classes. It is also not just for fun. It is a valuable academic tool. To write without using half of your brain, is to not write at all. When one writes strictly in an academic format, without using any creativity, it becomes a blank page with random letters on it. Therefore I think it is very important to stress to students to exercise their creative minds, when preparing for any type of writing assignment.

I was watching a special on the fall of Rome the other day and I asked myself a simple question, how do they know all of this information that has happened so long ago? Rose gave a very simple answer to my question? The information was written down. Rose explains that without writing there is no history, or philosophy, or sociology(pg348). We have always taught WAC in the classrooms, we just didn`t know it.

In reading Bean I began to once again think about what is academic writing. I can recall my last class that I took before this semester a couple of years ago, and the professor told me affront of the whole class that she didn`t know how I got to this level of education. She didn`t think I belonged, because she didn`t think I followed quote on quote the academic principles of academic writing. I think in reading Bean and the other two writers, one can begin to realize that the most important part of any writing, is to make your point. It is to have something to say with a purpose. The academic community sometimes tries to keep people out, they try to find all sought of rules that allows them to think they are smarter than everyone else.It becomes a form of segragation. This attitude stops many young pople from ever getting past high school in their academic careers. The only rule in writing something, is to have a purpose in writing it. I am interested to see what you think about what I wrote.