End of Composition

Unless you're born perfect, there will probably never be an end to composition. All writing can always be improved (if not, then editors would not exist).

I think when we talk about the "end of composition" we are thinking that at some point, students should just "get it" and be able to function in the adult...what..intellectual community, business word, political society? Honestly, definitions are as varied as the numerous students who take composition. How can there be an end to composition if we can't even agree on a definition.

Some people will always suck at writing...but their ideas and ability to critically think might improve. As unbelievable as this might seem to philologists, some people's brains just don't understand how to coherently put words down on paper. Of course, I could understand words in lengthy essays about microbiology without being able to put the concepts together and understand the actual material. So linguistic ability in terms of righting skill is not always directly proportionate to intellectual ability.

We demand, in a massive university effort to all incoming freshmen, a thorough indoctrination of the skills of composition that will, in some mysterious mystical ritual, ensure them a rite of passage into higher education.

So, we can stamp a passing grade on FYC students' papers or demand better curriculum in high school so that FYC becomes unecessary in college, but the likelihood of this happening is about the same as Heidi and Spencer becoming decent people who can positively contribute to society.