These sources are contributing to the ideas of gas notices, the need in our literacy, the current problems, and how literacy applies to the real world. It demonstrates the importance of reading and writing being taught simultaneously as it affects our education and lives in the real world. A current problem is that educators aren’t preparing students for higher education. Students are performing lower on SATs and other standardized tests and the author places the blame on culture and creativity for the lack of literature advancements. Not to mention, the disadvantage for those with a poorer socioeconomic background. The gap noticed is the lack of kids’ intellectual development from a young age due to varying socioeconomic levels. The gap from wealthier statutes are more intelligent compared to those from poor backgrounds. Those practicing literacy need to read like a writer for the individual's literacy advantage by replicating the scholar's work within their own writing. In the process of reading like a writer one must really think about what the author is conveying to the audience, how this information is being conveyed, and what one can do to write like the author. The need for revision within our writing process is also prioritized as it ties the ideology that writing is revision, to give comfort to novice writers. A strategy that is described is a four-part multi-literacies framework applied to design a set of courses for new first-year students to better prepare and therefore retain them. Each scholar is contributing new ideas, describing writing strategies,  providing solutions to problems, new ideologies, highlighting the misconceptions, and trends noted. The purpose for their writing is what helps to indicate how the author is contributing, whether it be by explaining the current problems, strategies to improve our literacy, and how it applies to the real world. 

By writing texts that discuss these problems and offering suggestions to solve the problems, these scholars aim to reduce the misconceptions of writing which most people hold and advocate new disciplines and curriculums that will make people have a balanced study system of reading and writing, which will lead students to success in the future, specifically according to Yancey. These texts contribute to informing the people of the existence of these problems and the possibility and methods to solve them. Therefore, people can modify their pedagogies that better suit the society nowadays.

The writers attempt to improve literacy in education by suggesting methods that can be implemented. Carillo’s “Reading and Writing Are Not Connected” suggest teaching reading strategies with the expectation of improving the understanding of texts. Bunn’s “How to Read Like a Writer” advocates for the Reading Like a Writer Strategy so students can be more engaged and learn from writing styles they come across.