How Reading Influences Your Writing?

This summer, I have been reading poorly written discussion posts in my online class and  various old books from my undergraduate days in the late 1980s.  I realized that my writing style is screwed up due to what I chose to read. At the time I was into the Beat Generation writers and Eastern European authors. Later in the 1990s I got into reading Japanese authors. One common theme in all of these novels was the stream of consciousness or at least the appearance of a stream with no visible plot. Although reading these books again (currently I am reading The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass) I have identified the underlying plot and am more impressed with these writers.   They had fooled the 19 years old me thinking "story telling is easy", and to this day I try telling stories before getting to the point.

Next I noticed how after reading students posts full of 'i' instead of  the capitalized 'I' for the first person pronoun, and 'u' instead of 'you' the second person pronoun, that I was doing the same in my responses to them. Was I mimicking them or was it my little mobile device? (the medium)
Is it the speed of the digital medium that makes me careless. I assume that all of these authors wrote and revised their writing many times before publishing them. How can I implement this realization in my classes?
1) Have them write on a topic.
2) Have them read each others work.
3) Have them rewrite their work.
4) Grade both on the content and the number of revisions the writing went through.
Dear English Faculty please comment and share your expertise.