Writing and Speaking to Learn
According to writing scholars Toby Fulwiler and Art Young, "language provides us with a unique way of knowing and becomes a tool for discovering, for shaping meaning, and for reaching understanding."
The goal of this kind of writing and speaking isn't to instruct or persuade another person, but to "objectify our perceptions of reality; the primary function of this 'expressive' language is not to communicate, but to order and represent experience to our own understanding." Composition scholar Joan I. Hawthorne describes it as a way to "learn how" to do something rather than "learn about" doing something.
