Justifying Choices

I agree with Will’s statements about how we as writers are expected to follow a certain rubric, restricting us from truly being creative. I think that as Will said, there are certain rules about how we write so that it is our words that paint the picture, not the layout itself. I think that there are types of writing that you want to express the creativity, and express meaning in presentation as well as your words. However I think that in a writing paper where the focus is how we write and how we present an argument in our words, than it is best to have a simple layout that highlights the words instead of the paper. The “societal norms” that will talks about I believe are there so that we can have our argument be the focal point of a paper, so that you’re opinions are not agreed with just because they look pretty. We write in the bland style that we have so that our arguments can be truly examined for how we describe them in our words, and that we can learn to do it better as well. So I do agree with Will that we have these norms for a reason, and that the reasons are valid.