WRITING AND THE READING, WRITING CONNECTION

Reading is like breathing in; writing is like breathing out (Pam Allyn) During units 3 and 4 we were exposed to the purpose, audience and the complexity of the language when writing. When i am thinking about or actually writing, I had never thought of or studied about audience and the complexity of the language, i use to just write bearing in mind my purpose. However, now that i have been exposed to the different purposes of writing, audience and complexity, as a future educator it has certainly changed me. Previously, i thought about writing to just inform, entertain, persuade, educate, explain describe and advertise were the different types of writing but i know now that they are the purposes of writing. Within this writing course i was also introduced to a number of audiences to whom students can target when creating  their pieces to include parents, children with different age ranges, adults and teachers or a general audience. Most importantly, when writing the complexity of the writing should be taken into consideration such as the words we choose, how we structure the sentences and the format or the type of writing we wish to utilize. Also, i was unaware that any of the purposes of writing can be used to teach any topic to any audience. For example the topic of Sex Education can be used to entertain, persuade, educate and still explain to both adults and even young children.

As a teacher who will be teaching students to become successful writers, i will introduce them to multiple forms of writing and a variety of purposes because it is a great benefit have when learning to write broadly. Writing has many genres, styles, purposes and more so many activities which students can be engaged in while writing. In class we looked at the genres of writing which included stories, informational, descriptive. poetry, letter writing and journals, however, there are different styles of writing which will determine if the writing is dressed up or dressed down by the word choices, sentence fluency and writers voice. The styles could be in the form of frozen, formal, consultative, casual and intimate.I additionally learnt that the different forms of writing can be written in these styles. Stories too can be written in a frozen style for example the bible. We also looked at the genres and what they can be used for like, story writing for entertaining and recalling an incident which really happened. I was also happy when we were introduced to the different activities teachers may utilize with their students to write different genres such as description. Descriptive workshop narratives for telling it your way, poetry opposites attract, letter writing work with me and i will work with you and journals, scribble da ting. I really found these activities very useful simple, interesting and entertaining and will actually engage students in writing the different types of genres.