Lu's style

This was an article that made sense to me and i could also relate to. Lu wants to "invite a multicultural approach to style, particularly those styles of students writings which appear to be ridden with "errors" Lu is asking the question what about the students that get the content of the question and can formulate a good answer, but that have basic grammatical problems?
Lu notes that there are typically two ways of dealing with such a roblem in a compositions class. 1) the teacher takes a couple classes aside and goes over "usage" and copy editing" and then spending the rest of the term helping the students revise. 2) would be to send students to a writing center and hope they can catch up. he says that teachers look at beginners writings differently than that of an "expert"
She gives to examples of authors who were to told they had errors in their text. Stein did not except this criticism because she was educated and therefore had the freedom to do so. This goes off the believe that only when a writer is "error free" can she write in a different style. Its like you have to prove your doing it on purpose to be taken seriously. The other writer was Dreiser who excepted that his work should be edited and his style abandoned because he felt he had not earned the write to do so because for one English was his second language and he was not as educated as the rest of the people who would be editing his work.
As Lu puts it, "ethnic and educational backgrounds were two common denmoninators for determining whether style represented self-conscious innovated experimentation or blundering errors." Lu is pointing out we should not be so quick to judge.
So Lu wants to have a teaching style that does not overlook the students potential lack of knowledge and experience but also does not dismiss the writers potential. So basically if a student has some grammatical errors due to lack of experience or being new to English it should not take away from their work if they comprehend the subjects and can add to the discussion.
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For my personal experience i definitively agree with Lu in that we should focus more on what the person is trying to say or if they understand the issue rather what tense they put a verb in. this is what do for myself i would rather understand an idea and be able to contribute to the discussion than not understand but be able to formulate that in perfect English. I try to give this attitude to my tutee, tell him that idea is more important than the structure, which ironically is what the so called "experienced writers do.