Becoming A Better Writer :: Teaching Education Essays

Becoming A Better WriterWhy did the chickenhearted cross the road? We all know the answer of course. Yet we continue to ask this question in order to solicit the obvious response, ...to get to the other(a) side. Why do we ask questions or pose problems that have only wholeness solution? Weve all heard the excusesThats the way I learned how to do it.If it aint broke, dont fix itIm only doing what I was told.I dont know another way.Chances are, if youre perusing the contents of this paper, you have probably used, at one time or another, one or all of the above rationalizations. Dont get me wrong. Id be the first one to admit that rationalizations are an important part of life. Some, but not many, would argue that rationalizations are more important than sex. I mean, have you ever gone a week without a rationalization? It is your ability to rationalize that allows you to continue to construct themes of generic wine babble. You know that the mindless banter that it is typical of suc h endeavors will get you a fair, if not exceptional, mark from the professor whose class for which you wrote it. There is certainly no shame in turning in such regurgitation. After all, you were just, ...doing what you were told, right? Youre not alone. This single rationalization allows half of the free world to sleep at night. The other half has a prescription.I want to change, you cry halfway through what had been a restful night. Youve decided to kick the theme-writing habit. How do I do it? you ask the faithful rocking chair that you sat in as a child. Incidentally, if the chair answers, youre problems will be addressed in another paper. However, getting screen to the task at hand, you can probably deduce that this theme writing vice will be hard to conquer. You get by for a quarter, or semester, without needing one and then BAM You need a fix. Briefly outline the Kennedy administration, appears as an essay question on a 20th Century American tarradiddle exam, for which you h avent thoroughly prepared yourself. You casually glance around the room. No ones looking. Just one little theme, you say to yourself. But the pointless dribble doesnt stop with this essay. The succeeding(prenominal) week youll do it again. Soon your up to a theme a day.Why is it so hard?