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One of the hardest battles that composition practitioners encounter within the writing classroom is dealing with students' poor writing skills. Traditional methods that only engage students to produce work that does not make use of the students' faculties, only propel students to continue to create work that is unsatisfactory. Currently, as composition practitioners continue to look for teaching strategies that can help their students become better writers, they often believe that reading, speaking, and listening cannot facilitate the teaching of writing. Because of the historical views that have defined the composition field, the discipline does not allow any other paradigms to redefine or shape how writing is taught. What is needed to combat such problematic teaching pedagogy is the institution of other methods that incorporates the use of writing, listening, reading, and speaking to teach students how to become better writers.