Knowing the Structure

So I came back after five semesters. And yes my brain cells have forgotten how to smell the news.
It’s been five long semesters since I last wrote a news story. Now the chance is here.
I listened. I wrote. And viola! My first speech story for three years!
I sat there in class wondering how I did. Our professor gave back my copy. There were no marks in it. And then it struck me: I need to learn how to spot the news again.
It was a reawakening of what I had learned in the past. Spotting the news in an event is not easy task. It requires logic and reasoning. I have learned from this recent experience how to really write.
First a writer must learn the conventions of the genre he is using. And he must first learn to master those conventions or rules before he can look for exceptions and slip through the loopholes. Mastering the rule makes a writer eligible to break it. It does not mean that he breaks it for the sake of showing angst or being deviant. He breaks it to express more clearly something that writing in the rules cannot express at all.
In the end, it still goes back to the main purpose of writing: to communicate clearly. And breaking writing conventions and rules before mastering them does otherwise.