Week 3 Journal

The people of Shenandoah National Park should be considered writers, in my opinion because they simply wrote the physical letters. I believe that a writer is anyone who writes, and that there are no requirements to become a writer. Anyone, at any age that has the ability to write can be a writer. The people living in the national park had little to no formal education but yet still wrote to the park rangers to express their feelings of frustration and concern.  Even with severe grammatical errors the letters were written to convey a message and therefore makes the people of Shenandoah National Park writers.

Being a writer can have several meanings, depending on how it is being discussed. For example, in the professional world, a writer would be someone whose work is published or writes to be published. In the everyday and general sense of the meaning a writer is just someone that has taken time to write. The writing does not even have to have meaning although much of what we see typically does. A lot of the everyday writing we thing of is some form of communication. In 1937 we see these examples of letters, and today we can see examples of emails or text messages. In all examples, the one that wrote the message should be considered a writer.