As our ENGL 5060 semester comes screeching to a halt, I'd like to take the time to thank Dr. Rice and my fellow students for the collaborative learning experience that created a unique voice for the expressive discourse during the semester. My sincere appreciation to each of you for a great semester!!

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ~William Wordsworth

Authority - Bartholomae - As students begin to write in an academic setting, they begin to integrate into knowledge-based communities building authority by adding to the knowledge-making writing they produce.

Coherence – Coherence can be described as the unifying element in good writing. It refers to the unity created between the ideas, sentences, paragraphs and sections of a piece of writing. Coherence is what gives a piece of writing its flow. It also gives the reader a sense of what to expect and, therefore, makes the reading easier to follow as the ideas appear to be presented in a natural, almost automatic, way.

Evaluation - Flower and Hayes explains evaluation as a cognitive process of revision where a writer makes judgments against their goals, knowledge, and the current text in an effort to determine the final product of writing.

Philosophies of Composition - Fulkerson - philosophies about the teaching of composition may be either expressive (personal views of the author), mimetic (shared universe of reality between writer & reader), rhetorical emphasizing the effect on the reader), or formalist (emphasizing traits internal to the work)

Post-process theory – This theory of composition endorses the fundamental idea that no codifiable or generalizable writing process exists or could exist. Post-process theorists hold--for all sorts of different reasons--that writing is a practice that cannot be captured by a generalized process or a Big Theory. Kastman Breuch views writing as an activity, looking to Kent’s claim that “writing is public, writing is interpretive, writing is situated.”