Todays Reading

I found todays reading interesting from an English students perspective. As a student with a concentration in writing, this article presented a subject that presented some of the same writing problems I often have so it was really interesting to see his progression with his writing through his schooling.
What I didn't like was the choices they made such as the school they chose to get a subject and the fact that they didn't use a student entering a university from high school. I think if you are going to analyze conventions of writing students then you should start at the beginning and see the foundation of these students backgrounds. Their test subject had an already vast background in writing, while studying students entering a university or even high school would have been more interesting and intriguing. Especially when you are trying to solve problems with the writing convention used by more experience students or even professionals. By studying the students learning and beginning to develope writing conventions, it would become easier to pin point problem areas whether it was in the teaching style, the way the student processes information and translates it in their writing, or something else. I just feel the designers of this study chose something easy to do rather than going for more benificial research with younger less experienced subjects.