Writers Writing teaches Writers to recognize their composing
processes, to respond to their own writings and the Writing of
others, and to discover how and why their make the choices and
decisions that they do in their own writing. From the beginning
of the book, Brannon stresses that the contents of Writers
Writing is offering suggestions and feedback to other writers
and not the traditional instruction of rhetorical modes and
grammar drills. The book emphasizes the needs and benefits for
teaching writers by implementing a workshop method in the
classroom. For Brannon, traditional pedagogies of writing
instruction often ascribed a methodical linear progression
through a predetermined procedure. Brannon calls upon Macrorie?s
?context book? where writers are the real focus in their writing
and their writing serves as the primary teaching tool. The
process of achieving purposeful and competent communication
becomes the goal of both Writer and instructor not just
producing a replicated product. Brannon argues th