One of the main differences between the writer and the academic is that the writer is writing more for themselves than anyone else. I think this is one of the biggest differences because when writers write for themselves, there is usually more passion in their writing. Elbow seems to stress to his students that he wants them to write as much for the audience as themselves, maybe more. He states that "writers often understand and readers and academics and teachers often don't". Therefore by putting more feeling and passion in papers he hopes to be able to open students minds to different types of writing.
A few things that have changed between this post and my original is it has more of my voice in it. Also, by being able to look back at the text I was able to incorporate a quote, which helps to support what/why Elbow believes this is a difference between the academic and the writer.
Posted by sftbal14 on September 3, 2008
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