Emphasis would shift from students' knowledge about writing to strategies and procedures they need to deal with more and more challenging tasks. Audience, purpose, and occasion figure prominently in the assignment of writing tasks. Instructors evaluate the written product by how well it fulfills the writer's intention and meets the audience's needs. It emphasizes that writing is a way of learning and developing as well as a communication skill. It stresses the principle that writing teachers should be people who write.
All children can be writers.
We write so that both we and others can know what we think. On the same point, Martha L. King of The Ohio State University pointed out that young children can and will write very early if they are in a positive writing environment and if parents and teachers recognize that their early efforts contain a real message. Concerning the idea that all children can be writers, Glenda L. Bissex of Northeastern University said that an expanded view of writing allows many more children to see themselves as writers. Colette Daiute of the Harvard Graduate School of Education stressed the need to integrate our understanding of the many factors that affect writing as well as reading. Current Practices in the Classroom.