Learn to write by reading
from: Literacy Development Through Peer Reviews in a
Freshman Composition Classroom by Julia Gousseva
url: http://iteslj.org/Articles/Gousseva-Literacy.html


In other words, one learns to write by reading.

Goodman (1986) outlines the following principles for reading and writing:

• Readers construct meaning during reading
• Readers predict, select, confirm, and self-correct as they seek to make sense of print
• Writers include enough information and detail so what they write will be comprehensible to their readers. Effective
  writing makes sense for the intended audience. Efficient writing includes only enough for it to be comprehensible.
• Three language systems interact in written language: the graphophonics (sound and letter patterns), the syntactic
  (sentence patterns), and the semantic (meanings).
• Comprehension of meaning is always the goal of readers
• Expression of meaning is always what writers are trying to achieve
• Writers and readers are strongly limited by what they already know, writers in composing, readers in comprehending.