What caught my attention in “You Can’t Teach Writing in General” by Elizabeth Wardle. When I started reading Wardle’s response was the bold and direct approach in the introduction to how passionate she was about making her statement known. When she went on about how people can’t write without incorporating skills that have been originally taught to us. What they have been taught it was true. On top of that, she was bringing up job expectations that can’t be met by a student freshly out of college and is told to write something without any references or anything to get help since they are new they can’t use any “resources” because they haven’t made the proper connections.
When it comes to the second reading, “Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way into a Writing Assignment,” by Catherine Savini I got from it that students should be given a chance to adjust and improve their writing skills. This change can give confidence, and students won’t have to worry about their grades; in return they will have the necessary skills to continue and better their writing with trial and error. This goes into learning when you fail. I say this because if you don’t get feedback, you won’t know what you will have to improve on to be better. Since no one is perfect being better is always a great mindset to have so you can push forward.
My Thoughts
What I like about this is that we are given this opportunity in this English class to get the feel and feedback to continuously improve and build up my writing to be better than before because some progress is better than none. If you’re serious about writing, you will have to do a lot of work to make sure that everything you do is to better your skills because it all comes with a benefit in the end. That could go with anything if you’re serious about what you do, and how it comes out.
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