In her article in Readings on
Writings, Sarah Allen discusses the difference between professional work and
student work and how she deals with less-than-enthusiastic writers in her class
and her past experiences with other well known writers. It attempts to show
writers in a new light as regular people, not as the person who “skips giddily
to the computer”.
This article coincides with the
article by Berkenkotter as she wrote about some difficulties some writers might
have if circumstances are different from their normal atmospheres. Sarah writes how one colleague of hers had a
paper rejected for being “poorly written” just as Murray was unable to produce
a good article for Jack and Jill Magazine.
I thought this article was
interesting because I feel that everyone is guilty of assuming that all writers
enjoy writing and it is clear to me that Sarah does not enjoy it. I liked her
hint that having other people edit your paper can be considered plagiarism, a fact previously unknown to me. I do agree
with her how we shouldn’t just assume that a group of people likes something
just because they are good at it.
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