At core will be the responsive interaction with teachers and peer students and what role different forms of responses play; university teachers’ formative feedback and peer assessment play, and how they influence the development of teacher students’ writing and their sense of what matters in writing. By using two different learning and writing environments in teacher education, preschool teacher education and teacher education, we distinguish between different forms of ideals, demands and feedbacks on their writings as they are articulated and practiced in different disciplines. Thereby we analyze ‘academic literacies” and discuss what kind of ‘formation scripts’ that seems to emerge in the interactions in different social practices within teacher education.