Vianca Acosta
ENG 220 – 0878
Research and writing Assessment Paper.
Sondra Perl
Sondra Perl is professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City of New York where she coordinates the PHD program in composition and rhetoric (Boe John, 2). She is a writing theorist, she analyzes and process writing.
The most important and enduring idea Sondra Perl has contributed to the field of theorizing the writing process is to “engage people to create a piece of writing that is strong” (Boe John, 4). When a person is creating a piece of writing it should always be strong in the way that it can touch others, it can have everything clear and understandable to the reader. Having a strong piece of writing can make the writer feel very comfortable and confidence about the writing, because the paper has a good and strong piece and that makes the writing better.
Sondra Perl has contributed idea of engaging people to create a piece of writing that is strong because her job is to “work with the text, to help the writer see what in this piece of writing is going to speak to other people” (Boe John, 4). Having a strong piece can reveal information that can be very helpful and informative to the reader and to the writer.
Also in my opinion having a strong piece of writing can show that the writer went back and fix some parts in the writing, thought before start writing, gather the ideas together before starting to write or maybe the writer wrote the strong piece from the beginning. But I think that most of the times in order to have a strong piece of writing the writer has to first analyze, process and plan before starting to write.
As a writer at the beginning you might not know where you are going, how to start or what to write about but wanting to have a strong piece can make you plan and scratch ideas that can help you with your writing.
The book, Felt Sense: Writing with the Body, by Sondra Perl can be very helpful for students that are writing a piece because the book “can help writers discover and articulate their best thinking” (Blau Sheridan). By composing information and prewriting it can be very helpful to write a strong piece of writing.
“Students had not yet internalized all of the rules that would make them skilled writers, nor had they learned how to judge their writing objectively. However by looking more closely at how much students compose, teachers can improve instructional methods by which students can achieve composition skills” (Pearl Sondra, 2). By teachers improving instructional methods by which students can achieve composition skills it would be very beneficial for the students because they would practice more the writing and learning new methods to be able to engage and make strong piece of writing.
Unskilled writers at the college level can be very engage from the enduring idea that Sondra Perl has contributed to the field of theorizing the writing process which is to engage people to create a piece of writing that is strong. This piece of writing can help unskilled college students to practice more, learn more and to know how to get skills by writing strong pieces. In my opinion, unskilled students or skilled students writing strong pieces makes their writing better and they learn from it to continue doing better writing.
I believe that engaging people to create strong piece of writing it’s a very good method because is something that would help people to practice more, learn and be good at. If Sondra Perl engages her students to be better writers and to write strong pieces it would benefits unskilled college students that need help to be able to write better. But with this idea it would make them write strong and their writing structures and learning will increase in a higher level because they are learning how to write strong enough for a piece of writing. Sometimes it’s difficult to know when you’re writing piece is strong or how to write a strong piece this is why it is good when you built strategies that can help you with your writing for example, planning, editing and even going back and fix things in the paper, doing all these can make your paper be strong by making sure you are writing a strong and very detailed piece.
Worked Cited
Boe, John. “There's Honor and There's Tears”: An Interview with Sondra Perl. Writing on the Edge 20.2 (2010): 42-55
Blau, Sheridan. Book Review: Felt Sense: Writing with the Body, by Sondra Perl. 26.3 (2004)
Perl, Sondra. The Composing Processes of Unskilled Writers at the College Level. (1977): 1-15
