January 17th response

Summary
In the article "The Inspired Writer vs. the Real Writer", Sarah Allen explains that there really is no such thing as an inspired writer. Everyone who writers has struggles and it doesn't matter if that person is a famous writer or a student trying to complete an assignment. In "All Writing Is Autobiography" Donald Murray explains how the construct that a writer should never use "I" in their writing isn't always correct. Writing is personal and making yourself apart of your writing is important. In "Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool" John Dawkins teaches that the rules regarding punctuation necessarily doesn't come from a textbook. He explains that most rules regarding punctuation is self-explanatory and also specific to what the writers intended emotion.
Discussion
1. The thing I find myself most about when I write is the page length and the topic. when it comes to picking a topic I change my mind numerous of times before reaching a decision. Page length is another hassle because I usually write something with perfect grammar and it says exactly want I want to get across to the reader. A required page length or word count always makes me start babbling and become very redundant.
2. When Discussing my paper with people I'm mostly worried that people will not agree with my opinion so then consider it "bad writing".
3. There really is no connection between my answers, but to me writing is a chain reaction when one thing goes bad everything else will too.
4. One thing I do before any paper is make an outline. I do this so I can see all my ideas and if they make sense.
QD Murray
1. Murray is asking writers to reconsider the construct the making writing personal (like using "I") is not appropriate.
3. Murray's writing is different because he writes it from his personal view and uses examples from his own work.
4. Although Murray uses a different approach in presenting his argument he still is writing it to help other writers.
5. I don't think his argument changes they write because I already put my opinion into and I find research that support my claim.
MM
A couple of ways Murray can help change my opinion about writing is to make maybe a little more personal and not so strictly factual.
QD Dawkins
2. Some things Dawkins claims are wrong with textbook style rules for punctuation is good writers use punctation to their intended meaning.
3. Raising and lowering can affect your writing by creating emphasis in certain parts of the sentence. Raising is a devise for gaining rhetorical effect, but lowering does not seem to be required by contextual need for clarity, except in a more subtle sense of this need as in a good comma splice.
5. Something I know now that I didn't know before about punctuation is that it kinda depends on the writer. Some rules are common sense but others can change depending on what the writer is saying.
6. I am a punctuation freak. I'm constantly changing my punctuation and thinking its wrong or Im not doing it right. Dawkins has showed me that I shouldn't really fixate on my punctuation so much because most of it might come naturally.
MM
I gain from this article example of how punctuation can transform a persons writing.
Response
I've learned a lot form these readings and they have really enlightened me on how to better my writing. Each piece offered specific advice on how I can personally change how I write.