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]]> By: thedarksideofdan http://andi12.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/a-little-help-from-the-professionals/#comment-23 thedarksideofdan Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:34:16 +0000 http://andi12.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/a-little-help-from-the-professionals/#comment-23 This post is spectacular. I'm wondering how you feel about modeling, and if this whole post kinda fits into that? I find that one of the best assignments you can give students is to try and copy another work or writer's style because so often students do not really know what to write about or how to write. By copying a model, it kind of gives them direction, right? Just a thought, keep up the good posts! ~Dan This post is spectacular. I’m wondering how you feel about modeling, and if this whole post kinda fits into that? I find that one of the best assignments you can give students is to try and copy another work or writer’s style because so often students do not really know what to write about or how to write. By copying a model, it kind of gives them direction, right? Just a thought, keep up the good posts!
~Dan

]]> By: Patrick Appleton http://andi12.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/a-little-help-from-the-professionals/#comment-9 Patrick Appleton Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:26:07 +0000 http://andi12.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/a-little-help-from-the-professionals/#comment-9 I am looking for a former teacher of mine who was very important to me in my life..... Her name is Andrea Redford...and she at one time taught school in Indianapolis, Indiana...... I am looking for a former teacher of mine who was very important to me in my life…..

Her name is Andrea Redford…and she at one time taught school in Indianapolis, Indiana……

]]> By: hannah8 http://andi12.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/a-little-help-from-the-professionals/#comment-7 hannah8 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:21:41 +0000 http://andi12.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/a-little-help-from-the-professionals/#comment-7 andi, I really like what you have to say in this post. I actually went to a different school as writing major for a while, and through talking with other young writers i felt like part of a community. However, one experience that stuck with me was being able to interview a local writer who had been around for a while. It was nice to talk to someon who was actually out there doing it! I feel like all aspiring writers should be hooked up with a mentor because it can be such a discouraging profession. I've always been a big advocate of learning from your elders, and i don't think the value of that diminishes when dealing with something as personal as writing. Good job! andi, I really like what you have to say in this post. I actually went to a different school as writing major for a while, and through talking with other young writers i felt like part of a community. However, one experience that stuck with me was being able to interview a local writer who had been around for a while. It was nice to talk to someon who was actually out there doing it! I feel like all aspiring writers should be hooked up with a mentor because it can be such a discouraging profession. I’ve always been a big advocate of learning from your elders, and i don’t think the value of that diminishes when dealing with something as personal as writing. Good job!

]]> By: eternaltreasure http://andi12.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/a-little-help-from-the-professionals/#comment-6 eternaltreasure Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:43:49 +0000 http://andi12.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/a-little-help-from-the-professionals/#comment-6 Wow, as an emerging writer and teacher of writing this passage has so many connotations not only what my personal individualized writing process should look and feel for my own writing, and also how to best encourage and facilitate the writing of my future students. I don't know if you thought how the idea that "passionate writing is real writing," will play out in a classroom setting, but it jumped out to me right away. I think that everything our class has been teaching us is that students need to be introduced to "real" writing. By "real" I mean writing that has a purpose for the student...that it evokes thought and interest--that it is personal. It also must have a "real" audience. Teachers of writing must force their students to see the applications and implications of what they say and how they say it, as it will affect and/or persuade an audience to agree with their purposes. By providing students with writing opportunities that will be personal and applicable to a larger audience, you are going to get more "passionate" writing, or at least more passionate thought going into the writing--which, in my opinion is GOOD writing. Wow, as an emerging writer and teacher of writing this passage has so many connotations not only what my personal individualized writing process should look and feel for my own writing, and also how to best encourage and facilitate the writing of my future students. I don’t know if you thought how the idea that “passionate writing is real writing,” will play out in a classroom setting, but it jumped out to me right away. I think that everything our class has been teaching us is that students need to be introduced to “real” writing. By “real” I mean writing that has a purpose for the student…that it evokes thought and interest–that it is personal. It also must have a “real” audience. Teachers of writing must force their students to see the applications and implications of what they say and how they say it, as it will affect and/or persuade an audience to agree with their purposes. By providing students with writing opportunities that will be personal and applicable to a larger audience, you are going to get more “passionate” writing, or at least more passionate thought going into the writing–which, in my opinion is GOOD writing.

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