reflection #5

     This week focused a lot on the fundamentals of writing ie, "Learning to read" and "writing is not natural. "Learning to Read" centers around the experience of Malcom X, Islamic preacher and heavy influence amidst the civil rights movement. Malcom taught himself to read and write while imprisoned. He credits his knowledge and much of his learning ability too books and the knowledge they offer. Lastly, "writing is not natural", authored by Dylan Dryer, begs the idea that writing is an unusual activity. "English speakers routinely talk about writing as if it were speech, characterizing their inability to understand a text as difficulty understanding what that text is “saying,” speaking of a writer’s “voice” or “tone,” describing readers as an “audience,” and so forth." These pieces intersect using the notion that although writing isn't natural, the capacity of information it provides is vast.