Friday, April 18, 2008
New Writing Process.
The article by Geoffrey Sirc presented a fairly confusing means of displaying an argument. It seemed that he was just jumping to unrelated points between each of the three parts in this essay at first look. He did tie them together, but to me it didnt seem like a very strong argument was made by him for anything. Even with this there were some good ideas that I got out of his essay. His discussion about minimalism and how to create a mix tape led me to the question of whether these approaches should be applied to the writing process. Would more unique and better written works come about if they were broken into smaller parts and then unified into a flowing body? If freshman composition courses took these approaches, maybe success in writing would be more apparent when looking at different individuals writing. The writing process as of late has plenty of flaws, but is there any real way to make changes to something that has been with us so long?
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I do believe that it is a very real possibility, but is up to the teachers to adopt such methods. Diffusion of innovation has to occur. Right now few teachers, english teachers in particular, have adopted this strategy. If it catches some 'dirt' and moves from the 'innovators' to the 'early majority' it could possibly flow into mainstream teaching. Hopefully it will occur.
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