I read David Bartholomae's essay Against the Grain. I think that I can learn a lot from his writing. The way he described his writing as "against the grain" makes a lot of sense to me now. Bartholomae writes that, in his view, writing is not so much prewritng, writing, and revision as it is tradition, imitation, interference, and resistance. The tradition comes from books you read and the teachers before you, that influence you …showed first 75 words of 513 total…

…showed last 75 words of 513 total…know, though, that once I do revise, my writing will improve greatly. While reading this essay, I started to have a new understanding about writing, one that I had never even thought of before. I hope to enlist his philosophies into my writing immediately. Reading this essay honestly changed the way I write. I don't think of writing so much as a chore anymore, but as something that is useful for me and the reader.