Barholomae Use Of Error Analysis

Those who do not write often or feel the process of writing meaningless may not come to agree with the argument that Bartholomae is showing his readers. Bartholomae is arguing that strategy of error analysis. Error analysis is basically the act of reviewing your own failures and learning from them. These failures can be seen in anything that one does in their lifetime. In Bartholomae’s case we are talking about error in writing. Error analysis is commonly used on those who are learning a second language but it is also extremely common for English professors to use when getting their students to become more engaged with their writing skills. With the use of error analysis we as writers have the opportunity to look back at our own writing and gain the knowledge of what we have done …show more content…
If a mistake is missed those who do not agree with this method will argue that you are more likely to make that mistake a second time. However those such as Bartholome see the greatness of error analysis. With the use of error analysis it helps teachers track their own students and see how their writing skills have improved and how the writer is developing. A quote that stood out while I was reading Bartholomae’s The Study of Error was “We need to treat the language of basic writing as language and assume, as we do when writers violate our expectations in more conventional ways, that the unconventional features in the writing are more evidence of intention and that they are, therefore, meaningful, then we can chart systematic choices, individual strategies, and characteristic processes of thought” (340). In this quote Bartholomae is explaining to readers that writers do make mistakes we violate our expectations. As a student who has been writing for years now I can agree with this quote. There has been numerous occasions in which I was writing and I had expected my paper to be