The Importance of Being OPEN

From Talia Ghazal's mid-term Memo (ENGL 477.SU2013)

The first piece of knowledge I have gained from both the radio station and magazine is to learn and experience anything and everything at any internship or job. I was aware of this well before beginning work, but I think it sunk in after the first week of work. Looking back at my very first post, I stated how I “just want to learn. Whether the knowledge I gain will benefit my future or not, it is still important that I learn from these two internships. I really want to know what it is like to work at both of these companies...” I still stand by this statement. I think any work related experience is vital if one wishes to have a successful career. And I literally mean any job experience. I did not think my work at A.T. Cross would help me get the internship at RI Monthly; little did I know that it was the reason why I was accepted at the magazine. They loved the blurbs I wrote for the pen catalogue and it was exactly what they were looking for. So because I am open to (almost) any experience, it shapes me as a writer. 

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Unlike academics who construct their pedagogical task as passing on knowledge (that is, unlike teachers in almost every other academic discipline), composition teachers profess the development of students' abilities.


Preparing a syllabus involves making predictions about how I semesters work will be orchestrated. The obvious predictions made by a syllabus are about timing and pacing. But a teacher preparing a syllabus also makes predictions about who students are and what they want from her class, and she predicts as well how what she knows will be integrated into the class. An experienced teacher of writing knows that what she knows will be modified by the experience of teaching a composition class, and she must admit as well that the conduct of any class is affected by her desires as well as her health and her well being. All of these things can change on a daily or even an hourly basis. When she is preparing a syllabus, she has to guess about how all of this will affect her plans as the group grows or shrinks, I students work together for 15 weeks, as their desires, health, and well-being affect classroom interaction. No wonder that syllabi are difficult to write (215).


Sharon Crowley, Composition in the University (215)

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I might, for instance, say that I believe that it’s crucially important for students to become “better” (in the broadest conceivable sense of that word) writers — but not because they’ll have to write in their workplace, but rather because writing is our most powerful tool for thinking and learning anything, and because it is through writing (and reading — and they are no more separable than speaking and listening) that we can participate effectively in almost any sophisticated intellectual activity or society. (145)

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