thoughts on the wc and writing on campus

i decided to post on a very specific issue that i think needs to be thought about, and is raised in stock's article.

stock says, in reforming education in the land-grant university: contributions from a writing center that, through goals and objetives, a campus writing center should move itself toward the ideological center of the university, and by doing this, more toward the center of society itself. i want to (very) briefly (yaddress the implications of these goals, and the importance of people knowing how to write well today.

i think that the centralization of writing, and therefore language, in a university is extremely important to the university itself as an intellectual establishment, to the students as intellectuals, and to society at large. especially today, when more and more emphasis is being put on the sharing of information, people who are able to write clearly and concisely are very important.

the university has a unique role to play here, as an intellectual establishment. writing is the only way to immortalize an idea, and to ensure that ideas are spread and recorded, the university has to ensure that it produces good writers, not just good thinkers. this will lead to a better future for both the students, more of which will be able to express themselves well and succeed in the information economy.

ultimately, it is my opinion that good writers will contribute more to society than if they were worse writers. if people are given the opportunity to learn to express themselves more clearly in a university setting, perhaps we will have more people willing to show their perspectives on the world.