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I found the article “The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers” to be very interesting. While reading this week’s article, it reminded me of the blog I did last week regarding pre-writing, and many of the struggles that I identified as being part of my pre-writing/writing process. --Like Tony, while writing, I constantly stop to reread what I am writing,  I often times read out loud what I wrote to develop a rhythm, and to develop my ideas, etc….  I guess that, per this article, I would be considered an unskilled writer. Now that Tony and my “problem” is identified, the question now begs, how did we become unskilled writers, and how do we fix it? Some of the other questions that come to mind:

• ·         Like Tony, I spoke two languages growing up, English and Spanish. I wonder if the fact that we are dual language speakers, maybe even the fact that it’s particularly English and Spanish, influenced how we developed as a writers
• ·         I’m not sure how far this teaching pedagogy goes back, but when I was growing up and I was learning to spell, my teacher’s instructed me to sound out the words that I was spelling. This, I think, could have set the precedent for the way I learned language: sound out the words, sound out the phrases, and sound out your essay.
• ·         The other big question that comes to mind, is it worth fixing? Although it takes me a long time to get something down on paper, the job gets done.