The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein provide templates designed to help organize your writing, making it more sophisticated. Specifically, Graff and Birkenstein argue that the types of writing templates they offer help create structured writing. As the authors themselves put it, "a learning tool." Although some people believe it limits creativity in their writings, Graff and Birkenstein insist that it stimulates creativity and improves it. In sum, then, their view is that writing templates is a temporary learning tool to provide room for creativity and professional structure in your writing.
I agree with Graff and Birkenstein. In my View, the types of templates that the authors recommend are extremely helpful to amatuer writers and helps jumpstart the thinking process. For instance, i used a template to complete this essay and it helped wonderfully. In addition, you can add your own creative flare as you go. The templates are not there to tell you that it is a must that you write this and that, or that you have to follow it exactally. You can modify them and stretch them as you write and come up with more ideas on your own. Some might object, of course, on the grounds that it is not your own original writing and ideas. Yet at first, I was one of the believers that this makes everyone's writing "sound the same", but as i learned more about the templates and tried it out I understand that that is not true. I would argue that it simply helps creates and jumpstarts your ideas. Overall, then, I believe the templates are a positive learning tool- an important point to make given that they are not made to be used your whole writing career, only to teach you the writing structures you'll need in every writing piece.
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