Attitudes towards writing...(another implication?)

Early on in the article, I write: 

The professional discursive knowledge that many adult or non-traditional students accumulate in the workplace—the genres they produce and consume, the composing strategies they enact, and the attitudes and dispositions towards written discourse they internalize—can and often do play a role in their transition they make, as writers, from workplace to academic sphere.

It occurs to me now that there may be an interesting small point to make here. In the workplace, writing is usually a means towards an ends--it doesn't draw attention to itself. You do as little as you need to do to get the job done. This is an attitude or an orientation towards writing. The writing is entirely instrumental. This disposition may be translated to academic writing assignments, although, I have no evidence for it. 

Attitudes might come from other sources--anxiety and past history. Is this a point that I might make in the other article, another potential implication:

Adult students are likely to bring a range of different attitudes and orientations towards writing to their academic work. Some bring positive attitudes, others negative, others may see writing as a means to an end.

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