- Everybody's a writer
- People in sports (like Lebron James and Koby Bryant) still practice basketball even at their professional level. Like them, writers only get better at writing by practicing writing. This means that I can get better at writings. Not completely and inborn talent.
- The world we live in runs on communication: emails, proposals briefs, newsletters, and essays exc. so you'll need to write constantly in whatever it is you're doing.
- Writers get better when they're mindful of writing
- You'll have to write yourself into a job
- Writing changes attitudes and judgments
- Planning (goals- how they'll get essay done), practicing (learning effective principles and trying them out through drafting and constructive criticism), revision (feedback, new goals, new strategies), and reflecting (think carefully about what they wrote).
- Rhetorical knowledge- write to get someone to feel, think or do something. This device is used for specific audiences.
- We need subject matter knowledge to be good writers for that topic. We write about what we know.
- Hold in your mind the purpose, your audience, and the text you are writing.
- Don't have fixed mindset like I'm a good writer or a bad one, believe our basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts. Useful to think of yourself as naive.
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