I think students feel discouraged by all the rules teachers try to teach them with grammar. However, writing lessons encourage students to release their barriers with writing and also encourage their inner thoughts to be released. In the study from Patrick Hartwell's article, he states that: “So Grammar 1 is eminently usable knowledge – the way we construct our lives through language – but it is not accessible knowledge; in a profound sense, we don't know we have it (Hartwell).” This article encourages our grammatical knowledge, which we have unconsciously stored, to be highlighted and one way this could happen is if we let students hand in their writings without changes to the teacher to review their mistakes but not to make corrections. Then the students use a red pen to correct their mistakes and edit their paper themselves so that the teacher can understand which grammatical errors the students can correct on their own. This way students' strengths and weaknesses in grammar are considered more than teaching grammar rules. To learn and understand grammar, it must be part of students' education as it helps students to correct their overlooked errors and for the sake of professionalism. Grammar is necessary, as Christensen's article summarizes when he says: “We must teach our students how to match subjects and verbs, how to pronounce lawyer, because they are the ones who have no power and, for the moment, must use the language of the powerful to be heard (Christensen).” However, grammar is important for our writing; grammar shouldn't be at the center of how we write, instead our thoughts should
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