Reading Journal: Reither's Point to Writing

Summary: James A Reither's article about writing discusses several points. His main points were centered on students and the way they think when they are writing, whether it is for a research paper or some other sort of writing. He relatedto several other authors in his article to help explained what he was trying to state. Questions that those authors asked, he answered with his own opinion. for example Richard Larson asked the question " how does the impluse to wirte arise and how does the writer identify the elements needed for a solution, retreieve form or find in some other sources the items needed in the solutin, and then test the trial solution to see where it answers the problem?" (620). Through another author, Lee Odell, and his anaylsis, he was able to answer the questions through further research.

Response: The article was interesting. It pointed out key facts about students and their writing, especially their thought-process. Reither stated that "The upshot is that we proceed as if students to us already widely-experience, widely-read, well-informed beings who need only learn how to do the kind sos thinking that will enable them to probe their experience and knowledge to discover what Rohman calls the "writing ideas" (622). As a future educator, I will not assume that my students will know everything in the book about writing, but enhance their learning process through teaching them the key points there is to learning what is needed to develop effective writing.