Celebrating Writing

I am enjoying reading Routman.  The "12 Writing Essentials" are a helpful resource.  Looking at the 12 Essentials made me reflect on all of the different components of writing - only two of which have anything to do with conventions!  This is not to say (and I think Routman is not dismissing them) that conventions are not important but that they are only one piece of good writing. Therefore, focusing on conventions to the exclusion of everything else is short sighted at best.