This article titled “Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitive Analysis of Writer’s Block” by Mike Rose Talks and summarizes what causes students with “writers block” to freeze up and not be able to write papers as well as what triggers this behavior. Throughout the excerpt he compares and differentiates two common types of writing students, the first student is the one to breeze through writing papers, and compares them to students that are extremely terrified of not upholding the rules of writing. While asking questions and trying to figure out what is the main thing that is causing writer’s block, Mike Rose came to the conclusion that a rule that students constantly repeated was the fact they had to make an interesting introduction paragraph. We have been taught that an introduction paragraph must have certain characteristics such as, interesting, catchy, solid, and factual, among others. The people without a block do not stress this rule; it comes naturally because they don’t stress what they have to write about, they simply put their thoughts into paper, they tend to look at it heuristically which means that they can bend a rule, or view a rule “loosely” which only means to make the rule fit to the plan that they already have for their papers. Algorithmic writers or people with writers block panic because they feel the need to follow each rule step by step. Mike’s solution to helping to solve writer’s block was to interview with each student in order to get to know them as a writer and about their writing background and the knowledge they already have coming with from previous English or writing classes.
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