Revision of Bazerman blog post

• Genres are a tool to learn new things. (p.290)
• The use of a familiar genre in a new situation can teach you new things. 

Revising your work is just as important, if not more important than the process of writing. When you look over your work, you can sometimes find things that you didn't realize were there while you were writing it. Bazerman talks about the fact that writing helps you to better understand things, and I feel that is true.

Genre in writing definitely matters. People write differently based on the genre they are writing in. Being well-versed in many different genres increases your cognitive ability. I think this quote explains it really well: "For example, though there may be variation among the writing processes of students writing an impromptu essay in their class, that same group of students will engage a different set of processes when they are at work on the student newspaper, and a different set of processes when they are filling out forms the next morning in the registrar’s office."

Throughout this article, Bazerman is focusing on how students learn. He mentions Vygotsky's theory of zones of proximal development in which learning occurs when novices collaborate with experts. This represents the cognitive rhetoric theory because it is saying that writing is a ways to solve problems and learning is a series of problems that students must constantly be solving. 

I'm still not sure I understand the four cognitive mechanisms....