The Importance Of Prolific Writing In Writing

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The definition of prolific is to produce something with abundance or high frequency. Prolific writing for experts, who could be authors, novelists, ghostwriters, etc…, would be to produce a large quantity of writing in a short time. Some novelists are capable of writing a book in a month or just a week. In the classroom prolificacy would be writing often, no matter the length of each work. For students, most writing is for practicing the different types of writing. Prolific writing should not be frowned upon in publishing or classrooms. This subject is interesting to me because I read and write recreationally. I use every chance possible to read and write. My reading is fairly diverse, though many of the books are supernatural, horror, or historical fiction. These books have a big impact on my writing style and topics. There are fictional and non-fictional, as well as academic and personal, works in my writing portfolio. In school I learned how to write in various styles, for different audiences, and multiple reasons. Although I believe that schools are trying to teach too much too early, it is important for students to learn to write with styles and audiences in mind. Both expert and novice writers have developed their own writing processes, …show more content…

Wierzbicki, the same teacher as before, how she felt about prolific writing in students; this was her reply, “If they don’t write often for a variety of purposes, they do not stand a chance of improving.” She gave a large number of writing assignments of different types to get the class to be able to write in various styles and for various audiences. Her style was similar to King in how he taught kids to be specific. King would ask students to describe common things that most of us take for granted, such as braiding hair or sports rules. There were days when we would walk into class expecting to work on a project and Mrs. Wierzbicki would hand us an off the wall writing prompt with an hour time limit

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