Habits "Connecting" Q/D #7
"We want our students to ask difficult questions and get lost in rabbit holes of research: we want them to know what it's like to get trapped in dead ends and to learn to write themselves out of such impasses."(P.113,Para.2)
We are all taught the "writing formula" that instructs us to have a claim and write about evidence that supports our claim. This "formula" is repetitive because students write about how their evidence supports their claim over again and in the conclusion paragraph. This style of writing, in my experience, was useful in the sense that I knew what I was going to write about but writing in this style for many years have limited my ability in introducing new ideas in my writing. When writing teachers told me not to write yourself into a corner but maybe if I had experimented more with my writing I could have been able to write in a way that does bring in new prospectives.
We are all taught the "writing formula" that instructs us to have a claim and write about evidence that supports our claim. This "formula" is repetitive because students write about how their evidence supports their claim over again and in the conclusion paragraph. This style of writing, in my experience, was useful in the sense that I knew what I was going to write about but writing in this style for many years have limited my ability in introducing new ideas in my writing. When writing teachers told me not to write yourself into a corner but maybe if I had experimented more with my writing I could have been able to write in a way that does bring in new prospectives.
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