Bazerman quote for Murray

The connection between what a person reads and what that person then writes seems so obvious as to be truistic. And current research and theory about writing have been content to leave the relationship as a truism, making no serious attempt to define either mechanisms or consequences of the interplay between reading and writing. The lack of attention to this essential bond of literacy results in part from the many disciplinary divorces in language studies over the last half century: Speech has moved out taking Rhetoric with it; Linguistics has staked a claim to all skilled language behavior, but has attended mostly to spoken language; Sociology and Anthropology have offered more satisfactory lodgings for the study of the social context and meaning of literacy; and English has gladly rid itself of basic Reading to concern itself purely with the higher reading of Literary Criticism. Writing in its three incarnations as basic composition, creative writing, and the vestigial advanced exposition, remains an unappreciated houseguest of Literature. All these splits have made it difficult for those of us interested in writing to conceive of writing in terms broad enough to make essential connections: our accommodation has been to focus on the individual writer alone with the blank piece of paper and to ignore the many contexts in which the writing takes place.

Bazerman, C. (1980). A Relationship Between Reading and Writing: The Conversational Model. College English 41(6), 656-661.