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Well, the article have been at times very interesting and at other time very ardous and difficult. I think overall though the working in groups has provided us with a great advantage as we do not have to read all the articles and can rely on our fellow students. Just by reading the annotated bibliographies provides us with the bulk of the article and a response from a fellow student. I think that this memo assignment is going to be difficult just for the fact that I personally have yet to have the experience of having to write a professional memo that will impact decision making. I am concerned that with all the readings that I have done that I will not be able to find the most salient points, in my opinion, that are able to be backed up by hard evidence. Even though this assignment is "fake" it still seems daunting..... There are a million different opinions and approaches to teaching writing and I really do not think that any one approach is the best. I have sort of come to the conclusion that there would need to be an amalgamtion of most of them to provide a writing program to the students that is versatile, helpful, and will work with a multitude of learning styles. The difficult part is going to be in deciding which features of the various writing programs to choose. Some things will obviously stand out more than others but how do I choose from the styles that are similar or even a little harder to understand. Another challenge in trying to choose which writing process would work best is that for the most part I have not seen these practices implemented in the classroom or how the students respond to the various processes.
In the first article the main points were that a student's life would affect the positions that they would put themselves into in both conversation as well as in their writing. Even though they may start in one position they do change through out time and even within the same context