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Patricia Bizzell explores theories regarding composition and the most effective pedagogy regarding composition in her piece “Cognition, Convention and Clarity: What We Ned to Know about Writing.” To begin with, Bizzell asserts that the need for teaching and studying composition grew from a need to understand writing. Subsequently, she relates teaching composition to teaching students how to think. However, she includes that students are not blank slates when professors receive them, and have somehow learned to think (and thereby compose) previously. She goes on to explain inner-directed composition, which is universal and teachable, as well as its foil outer-directed composition, which takes place in discourse communities and cannot be taught
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