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What is the term voice in a text?
Voice is the way a writer "sounds", so you can "hear" his or her voice, authority, expertise or particular style
What does the term literacy or literate mean?
What are some advantages of studying writing?
Writing is relevant to all of us. We do it every day.
What you learn will be directly useful everywhere: work, personal, in university.
You already have experience, so you know more than you think.
What is a contribution?
Adding something to an ongoing conversation on a given research subject, issue, problem, or question.
What is Burke's parlor metaphor?
Scholarship is an ongoing conversation at a party: you arrive late and others are already in conversation; you join one conversation by listening for a while and then, once you have something to add, to say, you make a contribution to the conversation. After a while, you join another conversation, while the first one continues without you.
What is the traditional story about writing, according to the text?
It is a basic grammatical skill of transcribing speech to print and writing is something you can transfer to other situations. Good writing is following all the rules and avoiding errors. Writing is hard because following the rules is hard. Not content, correctness.
What does the term transfer mean?
The act of applying existing knowledge, learned in one situation, to new situations.
What is the second story about writing? What is a richer story about writing?
Writing is content, form, invention, process, and rhetoric (how and what you say successfully meet a situation).
What does it mean that there is no universal set of rules for writing?
That habits for writing in an engineering class might differ from the ones needed in a history class, or the rules to write a poem, for example.
The text says that rather than teaching how to write, it is important to ...