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reflection on academaic discourse

Running Head : COMPOSITION STUDIES

Writing Elbow-ism

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Writing Elbow-ism

I . Writing and Non-Elbowism

Writing as a discipline of composition studies is meant to help or assist students to develop basic understanding and to be more familiar with formal written English . Basic writing courses today have various approaches and they are usually employed in courses offered to collegiate and the non traditional or the older strata of universities for the primary aim of advancing or gaining skills correlated to writing in the general hope

of gaining money or for future employment

The definitum for the category of the basic writes is static or non-parametric depending on a particular university and /or the general population literacy . As writing is of huge import as a form of medium and communication , in a general sense , that is , it may also apply to the present economic demand of most employers who look for employees who is also versatile in the written form . Writing is necessitated by all schools as a form of general education and according to Shaugnessy (1977 ,

.2 , those [students] who need it are those who are behind in terms of formal education /schooling or of different language or those who are behind in their studies . Who exactly are qualified for the course and what are the complications or the problems the prospective and /or the current students encounter during the course

As previously mentioned above , those who have lagged education in terms of schooling or who was not able to get furnished education in their high school or middle school years are qualified as well as international students who sees English as a `foreign ' language and is consequently , not well versed with the English language . Commonly encountered or pre-existing problems associated with the study (or the lack of it ) are the handwriting , spelling , verb agreements , syntax coherence , organization , political correctness , usage , mechanics , and pronunciation . Idea development and effective writing are also problems that are commonly encountered by the students during the course

As writing is of huge import to composition studies , most educators theorize or suggest different viewpoints on writing , and their differing vantage points on writing suggest different outlooks and different methods for the course . Shaugnessy was the first to theorized about writing in her book , Errors and Expectations , and although she wrote about the general common faults of the students in writing , such as poor handwriting and syntax , which she backed up with examples of thousands of student s , and reflected the need of the teachers to adopt to the writing needs of their students , her defeating point is that her theories on the language are essentialist and overlook other important material considerations such as socio-economic , political and surrounding events of the between the writer and basic teaching Mainstream language and rigid linguistic use is suggested by the author who does not necessarily agree with the radical opinions of others (Lu and Horner , 2000 , pp . 43-52

There are apparently those that agreed with Shaugnessy 's works...

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