Ten Ways To Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Students: E. Shelley Reid

This article was about different ways of writing. When I read this article I was like "gosh", Why are there so many way of writing?  The author starts off by saying that "writing is hard", she also said that writing is made harder than it has to be when we try to follow too many rules for writing. Why are there many rules to writing? In English class when the teacher says "take out a piece of paper and write down what you think about the class". So I would write what was in my head onto this white, spaced line sheet of paper. Didn't know anything about rhetorical and rules of writing. SO I WAS RIGHT!!!! Although writing is hard there are many rules and ways of writing. What I have to do is like the article says, free myself from the rules and learn to make rhetorical decision.