Chapter 10 of Best Practices and Graves' Article

These two articles were very interesting. I especially liked Graves' approach to writing something that is meaningful. I think of so many of my own writings that actually were well constructed, interesting, and thought provoking and meaningful, and these were all the ones I ever really cared about writing. Essays and other papers that were on topics that had no value to me or did not interest me were always lesser in quality. Same goes for poetry. Poetry that was forced upon me never turned out right and Graves really picks up on that fact in his article. He thinks writing should be an expression of whatever is going on or important in your life and I agree.
Chapter 10 of Best Practices in Writing goes along with some aspects of Graves. The authors of chapter 10 say that in order to motivate writers, writing assignments should be purposeful and interesting or "authentic". The authors also believe that choices should always be given. I again think this is an interesting idea. If choices are provided, it gives the student the chance to find a topic that connects with them, thus increasing the motivation and likleyhood of success.