Does writing instruction easily transfer to other writing situations? Is their a universal way to teach writing that will help through education?

In this article it explained to me that there is not a universal way to learn how to write that will fit into every assignment that might be assigned to us by our instructors. There is no specific format that can be taught to write that will address everyone and they will be able to understand it. In the article it gave me an example in which we can write about a particular course but that doesnt mean that once in the course we will be experts at writing lab reports or etc. For example, we can write about biology but once in biology we wont be experts at writing lab reports because it wouldnt be written the same way. First year composition instructors dont know wether to choose genre A over genre B because the one students might need in the future can be genre B or C. First year composition instructors can only hope that any instruction given to students will help them in some way in the future courses they will take. It is hard for intructors to teach because they dont know what genres or rhetorical strategies are universal or how to help students understand and recognize the universality. David Smit believes that assumptions of direct and automatic transfer from one writing situation to another are unfounded. This article really opened my eyes to see that there is no universal format or way of teaching writing.