This is a Redneck Argument
How do you think the writer would have felt had the tutor not been Turkish? (I looked him up) Moreover, if the consultant had been a white American, do you think that they would have felt more comfortable addressing the writer's position in a more open/agressive way?
Reflections on Teacher Comments
Were you surprised by the graduate students' (in scene 3) reaction to their professors comments? Has this scenario changed your perspective of teacher commentary and how long it takes to be able to 'decipher' it?
Bedford
These tips all come from a situation where the writer has time and motivation to revise. How would you modify them if one or neither of these were the case?
Hjortshoj
Do you own a writing handbook? If so, how often do you use it and has it been noticeably helpful? If not, after reading Hjortshoj and Bedford would you consider buying one?
Q&A Blog Posts
15 years ago
I am going to respond to the question you have for the reading in the Hjortshoj book.
ReplyDeleteLast semester I had another book similar to the "Transition to College Writing Book," called "Writing Analytically." However, the additional book was helpful in the sense that it taught me to reason towards a claim rather than from one. However, in terms of a writing handbook that deals with sentence level errors as well as the approach to how to organize a paper, I would not buy one. I feel that writing is very teacher dependent, and that a writing book cannot address this issue.