Creative Writing

Summary: Chapter Six focuses on teachers and their ability to prepare students for writing using several different concepts. The chapter introduces several main points. Creativity, perception and conception. The chapter further discusses theorist and their thoughts on writing. According to the chapter, "not only does prewriting encourage students to see their subject and envision an audience, percptual problems all writers must solve, it also aids thinking' (93). While much of this is important, the chapter main focus was cognition and what most teachers should know about it. According to the chapter, "we should avoid overgeneralizing what researchers tell us about how people learn and allow for differences among indivduals, research on cognitive development offers useful principles for writing teachers to consider" (106). Writing is essential to each individual student and should be taken very seriously.
Response: Creativity is a good way to get the mind working and to get students engage in their writing. It helps them understand writing a lot more when they are able to insert their own ideas. As a future educator, I hope that by the end of the first four weeks of school, I will know where each of my students stand with writing, so that I can enhance their writing skills more and more each time. Writing can be so difficult for some students. I know this, because it was hard for me and still is at times, especially when I cannot get my thoughts together. Writing is an essential part of today's society and should not be taken lightly.