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Assignment:

Using the Sommers' article define the word recursive and get a sense of its various definitions. Based on the reading, your research, and on how you typically think about writing, explain why writing is a recursive activity. Then stop and think: How is your typical writing process actually recursive? What does that recursivity look like in your own writing? Explain.

Sommers says that the language students use to describe revision is about vocabulary, suggesting that they "understand the revision process as a rewording activity" (para. 9). How is that different from the way she argues that revision should be understood?

In her introduction and in analyzing students' descriptions of revision, Sommers focuses quite a lot on the difference between speech and writing. In your words, what is she saying that difference is between the two, and why is this difference relevant to how we understand revision?

In the closing lines of her article, Sommers asserts that "good writing disturbs; it creates dissonance." What does that mean? Do you think that is always true? Can you think of good writing that doesn't disturb, create dissonance, or try to resist other ideas? Sommers is really making a claim about what counts as "good" writing. How does her definition here of good writing compare to your own idea of good writing?