Reading and writing are the two essential skills to communicate and to be successful in school. The idea that reading and writing are not connected is one of the bad ideas that people often believe. In “Reading and Writing Are Not Connected” essay, Ellen Carillo explains why this is a bad idea and what she thinks is a better idea. She thinks that it is better when reading and writing taught for students commonly. Reading and writing are connected through the process of learning and they have close relationship. Many studies have shown the connection between reading and writing, and how these two work together.

The way we speak is very different from the way we write. Developing writing and reading experiences can help the ability to make a good argument on a variety of subjects. Writing is simply an output, and reading is an input. Someone will be writing for somebody else to read it and share their thoughts with others. In “Reading and Writing Are Not Connected,” Ellen Carillo refutes the idea that reading and writing are two separate skills, “are not connected”: “What is often neglected in these public debates about the best way to teach literacy at the college level is that reading and writing are connected practices and, as such, the best way to teach them is together. It is a bad idea to continue privileging writing at the expense of reading” (Carillo 38).  

Instructors want the student to read an essay or article and they require to write about it and understand the theme of the text. In this way, the student practices reading and writing skill. when reading and writing are taught together, students will become better thinkers. Normally, reading and writing occur at the same time. The student comes up with some ideas after they read something in class. As Carillo suggests “Teaching reading and writing together will help students become more proficient in both” (Carillo 41). This is where Carillo supports the idea that reading and writing should be taught together. This helps the students to put ideas together and have critical thinking. Students get a lot of information from what they read from a book or other resources. They interact with their own life experience or might be a new idea for them what they just read. Reading helps the student to see on their own perspective or to change their mind about something that they already know. 

Most logicians recommend that people read and practice writing. David Bloome the author of “Reading, Writing, and Learning in the Classroom” says that “Reading is typically viewed as used for gaining information. One reads a book in order to gain information to do so” (Bloome 23). Readers might have many reasons why they prefer reading. Many writers read a lot of information before they start writing. They must sit on the chair and gather more information about what they want to write about.

Reading is one way to interact with the writer. It gives a chance to be able to understand what the writer is trying to say. As Carillo says “Although writing is more often thought of as a creative act, reading is just as creative” (Carillo 40). The writer talks his/her reader through their work. Writers are idea creators; they create a view and the reader job is to take the view in their perspective and learn from it.  

Mariolina Salvatori an author of “Reading in the Teaching of Composition” essay describes the relationship of reading and writing by saying “reading and writing are interconnected” (Salvatori 446). Salvatori uses this term to show the relationship between reading and writing. He also discusses the purpose when the students practice reading and writing at the same time. Salvatori supports the idea of teaching reading and writing together for students.

  Generally, all student should exercise reading and writing at the same time and they should stop thinking about these two things are separate. If a student wants to become successful in school or anywhere around the world, then it is better to practice reading and writing simultaneously. A writer puts his/her works out there for us and then it is our job to put those things together and answer these questions what, how, why and where. 

                                        Work Cited 

Adler-Kassner, Linda and Estrem, Heidi. “Reading Practices in the Writing Classroom.” 2005. http://www.wpacouncil.org/archives/31n1-2/31n1-2adler-kassner-estrem.pdf  

Bloome, David, and Erine Theodorou. “Reading, Writing, and Learning in the Classroom.” Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 62, no. 3, 1985, pp. 20–43. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1492584. 

Carillo, Ellen. “Open Access Textbooks.” Bad Ideas About Writing | Open Access Textbooks | WVU Libraries, 2017, textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas/index.html. 

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