Bartholomae

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 wrong. Peer editing is also …show more content…
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. 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 . There has been numerous occasions in which I was writing and I had expected my paper to be perfect. Eventually I had reviewed it I found mistakes that if I had not gone back and looked at it I would have never found these mistakes. I can come to agree with the study of error as Bartholomae has described since I have been using the method throughout my years as a writing. Without editing and looking back over your work whether it be alone or with the help of a peer you will not grow as a writer. To grow as a writer you need to be able to come to terms with the mistakes you make and edit them so that it will not happen again. Those who are opposed to this method may argue differently but I can personally say that with the use of error analysis it has helped me grow as a