In the field of English writing teaching researchers tend to use skilled writers and unskilled writers to categorizing language learners. I found that it is quite funny to categorize writers this way, do we really have the standard for skilled or unskilled writer. Even if we do have the standard, do we really care about this, or there is something more important than skills when comes to writing. What is the purpose of the writing teaching, of course as a teacher we want our students to know how to write, but what is the proof that your students really know how to write, by showing you that they know all the writing skills or a good essay instead, you may argue that how come a learn who knows very well of the writing skills comes out with a bad essay, are you trying to tell me that knowing the skills is the guarantee of a good essay. No, a good essay needs something more than skills. I can prove this to you. If skills are the guarantee of a good essay, then it is impossible for someone who does not know the skills to write a good essay. However the truth is on the contrary, top writers were not learned to be the top, they were not following any rules since there was not any rules before, and they are creators of the rules, in other words, not good skills created good writing, but good writings created all the rules and skills. We summarized all the good points from the surface then made up so called skills and then use it to evaluate the learners. However, what we understood is from the point of production, we have no idea about the producer, we only know what is good , because it has already been created , however we have no idea about how it was created, no matter how much we pretend that we know.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
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1 Comments:
Very interesting post, John. So it seems to me you are interested in what good writers ACTUALLY DO when they write.
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