"Ridged Rules"

    I define writer's block as, when your writing an essay and your on a roll, then all of a sudden your mind goes blank. You have no idea what to write about, and you just sit there staring at your essay trying to come up with something, but you cant think of anything. And once you think of something, you cant phrase it in a way it makes sense. I deal with writer's block at least once with every essay I write. Mike Rose thinks of writer's block as, that frustrating, self-defeating inability to generate the next line, the right phrase, the sentence that will release the flow of words once again.
According to Mike Rose some main rules that may cause writer's block are, problem-solving,  introductory period, processing period, and solution period. I think for me, i have most trouble with the solution period. I think I have trouble with this rule because, I stress when I cant think of something to write in my essay. These rules are rigid because, in my opinion some people might have a really hard time with writer's block, and might not know how to deal with it. According to me and Rose to overcome the rigid rules, a writer should make a plan. Find ways to overcome them.  For me, I sometimes need to step away from my work for a little to clear my stress. Or sometimes I wold listen to music to try to get inspired.

Schooled Literacy Perspectives

1.) "Schooled Literacy", is the ability to use printed and written information to function in society. I would define schooled literacy as how everybody reads and writes. Rick Evans defines "school literacy", as a collection of experientially specific indeed, context-bond communicative, interactive, and creative written-language activities that involve learning the participation structures and the normative, yet oftentimes, variable patterns of written-language use governing those activities.

2.) Using different reading strategies is always seen as good reading. From reading this passage, I learned that its good to always look for morals, hidden meanings and learn facts so you understand what you've read. What I got from this passage about good writing is that it doesn't matter how bad you print your letters to be a good writer, the message you write is what matters. For example, the messiness of the script was not as important as the message.

3.) School changes students experiences with  reading and writing by determining students perceptions and understandings of reading and writing as literate activities and of themselves as readers and writers even outside that context and apart from those school-related experiences, according to Evans.

4.) My experience with "schooled literacy", I think made me a better writer as I got older. I do agree with Evans, I can relate. Its basically how we read and write as students, and understanding reading and writing.