Week 5 Readings

When I read the articles for this weeks class, the one that stuck out to me the most was the Gibbons chapter on Writing in a Second Language. Often as a writer I do not think about all of the processes that I do on a daily basis when writing papers for class, or an e-mail to my father. When I think about it though I do understand that "writing is a recursive process-that writers continually revise and edit at all stages of the writing process..." (Gibbons 52). When I first read this I kind of figured that all good writers do this no matter what language we are writing in, and bad writers do not do this, no matter what language that he or she may write in. Gibbons continued to break it down by saying "They tend not to plan at a whole-text level, and they are less able to anticipate the language and content information that a reader will require in order to fully understand their writing" (Gibbons 52).
This makes a lot of sense to me because people who are learning the language have so much to try and focus on in order to try and write that they do not even think to re-read what they wrote and fix it, more then likely they would not know how to properly fix a mistake anyway. I know that when young student is trying to write he or she can not always put down on paper what is in their mind due to vocabulary or other types of wording issues, and I can imagine this is the same for ELL's.