exam essay- revised

The article was “From tripod to Comes: A new metaphor for the language arts”, which had published in English Journal and was written by Baines, L. A.
We can divide the article for two parts. The first part indicates the language arts in writing project, which is using the precise words in the composition. The second part is the revolution of medium for writing methodology. In first paragraph, the content is the writing project had shifted completed work to the writing procedure for over 20 years. The purpose to shift the focus of writing instruction is let the students learn to write in a variety of modes for different aims and for different audiences. So the students can receive more opportunities to write for different kinds of audience as their learning process.
The second paragraph points out the teachers can use individual conferences extensively, and make some activities: such as sharing and publishing the students’ opinions in daily classroom exercise to help them to write with different literary forms for expression. Because of students should understand how the form relates to mode, aim, audience, and media. The third paragraph mentions that the traditional teaching style of composition have been changed by the computer. The teachers of teaching language arts should be familiar with various software programs because the teachers have to guide students to write, edit, and publish their works by using the computers. Besides, according to the academic journals, writing for nonprinting media has been the most profitable avenue for professional writers in twentieth century. In conclusion, the teachers of composition may provide multiple learning environment and media such as film, television, Internet, and video.
In the above, the article mentions that the writing project and the using different media in students writing. It has some critical points can promote the efficiency of students’ writing skills as following. First, a complete composition should have clear topic. That is to say, in the composition, we need to know who the audience is, that the different audience such as male or female needs different information. If we want to write something which can appeal the audience, we should know the clear direction for our readers. Second, we should decide the mode and aim in our writing, because it connects whether the expressions clear enough or not. For example, the aim of literary and persuasive is different. Writing with literary, it is free to express our ideas. Moreover, when we want to persuade our readers to agree our opinions, we need to use evidences to support our ideas.Third, the method that we can use in language arts to emphasize our intention. For example, we can use different forms to present our composition. And the form relates to mode, aim, audience, and media. I agree that because when we write an academic paper, we need to avoid the free style forms such as poem and novel. The last points was the teachers of composition must also provided multiple environments in which students engage in writing for media such as film, television, Internet and video. Using computer to write, edit, and publish the worked is quite convenient because we can use many materials from the Internet in our article to resupply our ideas. Moreover, the variety media not only can make the composition more interesting but also attract our audience to read. To conclude, a complete composition needs to make good use of language arts, besides, the media we use can really help for our composition.