In "punk power in the first year writing classroom", Optimism One addresses a wide variety of readers. First he is addressing first year writing students. He gives them a guideline as to how to create a well written piece. he also addresses writing instructors, he encourages them to break away from a standard and let the students write in their own format. Lastly the readers of his piece may also be some who want to learn who to write and are looking for different approaches. Most of these readers will most likely be of college age or they may be even instructors. The piece, "punk power in the first year writing classroom" is strong in its claim. The claim is that if we embrace the punk movement in writing then we will have a very well written piece. We must forget about what we were taught in high school and embrace a more active writing process that has a conversation with others in the same issue. Optimism One brings up the five points on how to write, have a DIY ethic, have a sense of anger and passion, have a sense of destructiveness, have a willingness to endure, and the pleasure principle. The DIY ethic is being self sufficient, to do whatever you want and how ever. It implies to just write the way you feel most comfortable. You …show more content…
He uses his ideals in life to also be ideals or guidelines in writing. He presents himself as a punk and goes through completely. He show that he adheres to his five points that he had laid out. He even has authority in his writing because of him being in the punk movement, who else would be able to get the point across better than him. He has the ability to say what he says and have it actually make sense because he has first hand experience as a punk. He writes as an insider or even a creator of this writing form. This gives the text more weight even though it is not a very professional text. He uses ideas of the real punk movement to illustrate a new way of