Greg Warman
9-14-12
English 1510
Informal Writing –
Peter Elbow
The
main purpose of Peter Elbow was to bring forth the different views about the
use and purpose of a writer’s voice. Elbow divides his article into different
sections that express the different views about voice in a writer’s paper. Elbow goes from explaining some views saying
that voice in a paper is good, and then turns around and makes known the
beliefs of skeptics who say that voice is not our own voice at all, rather, it
is the voice of our culture. The
contradiction that occurs so closely to one another in the paper was confusing
to me. Elbow then goes into the current
situation involving voice and gives an example of a student of Jane Daniwlewicz
turning down one of Jane’s suggested revisions to the student’s paper. Student
said they believed that Jane’s revisions took away a part of their “personal
voice,” and therefore the student refrained from adhering to her revisions and
left their paper the way that it was.
This is the most important part of the entire article. With this example, it shows that students are
capable of developing their writing far enough to where they incorporate their
own voice into their work. By recognizing this, a writer can learn to use that
same voice so that people can recognize them by their writings. Also, having control over your voice allows
you to change up your voice in a writing, which opens you up to a whole new
realm of writing. Basically, voice is
important and it’s vital that writer’s must learn to use their own voice in
their writings. This will help them
determine the voices of other writers and help them to develop and personalize
their own voices.
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