Discussion on Sommers

1. Why is Sommers arguing that writing is not linear why writing can't be compared to speech? Writing is believed to have a format and speech, it is more fluid and natural. Once something is spoken you cannot remove a statement. Writing can be a complex process.

2. Compare the revision strategies of experienced and student writers? Student writers want to be general. They tend to re-arrange words or phrases, choosing to focus on technicalities, rather than content and ideas.

3. Sommers (386) says that revision is a recursive process. what does she mean.

You cannot revise a paper once and it be considered satisfactory. One has to think of multiple ways to develop a paper.

4. "What is curious however, is that students are aware of lexical repetition, but not conceptual repetition" (382)

students would rather focus on "word play" or sentence structure in a paper than to see if the thoughts and ideas in a paper are complete. People notice repeated words but do not notice when ideas are repeated after the point has already been made.

Composed by: Joshua Villarreal, Alexandria Pierce, Daniel Cisneros