Monday, September 19, 2011
Graf #4
Put a small part of you in everything you write. That’s the big point here. Invest yourself in the topic. Find some aspect of the subject that interests you, and spread. It begs you to become motivated. To invest in the words you put down, to make you ask questions and look for the answers. To review your entire work multiple times, and throughout the entire writing process too. Checking for flow, and making sure the topic matter still applies. Seeing what ideas are still floating around, undocumented, and also just a general question of “Is this work, me?”. Also knowing it’s not just an indifferent teacher reviewing my work for a letter grade, I think has changed what I now call acceptable writing. The new addition of peer input has done a lot to curve my view. Now it’s more than just my grade on the line I’m working for, I’m also maintaining a certain reputation, a writing reputation. That all is just some of the ways I apply the advice covered to mold my writing technique as best I can for this class, and life in general.
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I like your version of my advice very much--though I note your comment on peer input; your peers can certainly read your blog, but peer comment or editing is not actually part of the course design. I hate students getting on each other's case. I prefer the adversarial model where it's you guys all for one, one for all, standing together and all against me, the teacher.
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Really. The other way leads to suck-upism and bad feelings.