Hello Deangelomontrel,
Okay so Advanced Composition' and Occasion-Sensitivity Further, people read for
two reasons: entertainment or information. [ A writer who confuses,
bores, or threatens the reader, "has lost that reader, usually for
good." Earlier, Donald Murray's indispensable A Writer Teaches Writing
(1968) focuses firmly on the target-audience. So writers, and now
textbooks, embrace this pragmatism. Do the nation's writing classrooms,
secondary and even collegiate, follow suit? Quite possibly not, which
may suggest that advanced composition may often have a mandate to
emphasize sensitivity to occasion as the keystone skill in real-world
writing which it in fact is. My own foray into freelance writing in
particular?77 articles in five years, but not without initial
stumbles?taught me that real-world writing in general is varied,
difficult, possible, necessary, satisfying. I now feel obligated to
impart some of this perspective to my advanced writing students
especially.
Hope it helps.
Sincerely ComedyShortsGamer
