Content

• Fish says students should only learn grammar and mechanics in early learning
• Author feels personal experience should be related to writing
• Finds that students who relate their writing to personal experience write better
• Students feel distanced from learning when they aren’t interested
• Finds that the separation of academic and personal life is detrimental to learning
• Student’s other knowledge can contribute to their learning of literacy

Purpose

• Author uses her personal experience to reinforce her opinion that personal writing is the best writing
• Tells stories about alienated writers to appeal to the pathos of her readers
• Uses her own personal experiences to appeal to ethos
• Supports her arguments with counter arguments to the ideas of Fish
• Uses other authors’ works to support her own such as hooks
• Makes a largely emotional argument