“’My Teacher Hates Me!’ The Writing Center as locus for a rhetoric.” ~Based on the WAC Program.
One thing that the article stresses is that students today are too busy focusing on looking at the camera lens than striving to reach their full potential. “The students’ ability to hoop jump and academic double speak is an indication of the student’s awareness of two basic rhetorical concepts: audience and voice; which motivates us to write and publish in our academic fields.” This is most certainly not what the writing center wants to promote not what professors themselves would want their students to do. No one wants to read or hear their ideas from someone else’s mouth in their own words. Writing is about fluidity and having the ability to just explore. The author states, “The purpose of telling professors what they already know expresses frustration over “devaluing” of personal observation and experience in the sciences and the need to couch every in someone else’s words in order to achieve credibility.” It is like what Bartholomae said in his article, “Inventing the University”, when you write you enable privilege which empowers your writing. Writing is about words and words are very powerful and must be used with great responsibility. With power like that why would you want to write other people’s words or tell them what you think they would like to hear? That my friend is pointless. Don’t write to impress, write what you know, explore, be original.
One thing that the article stresses is that students today are too busy focusing on looking at the camera lens than striving to reach their full potential. “The students’ ability to hoop jump and academic double speak is an indication of the student’s awareness of two basic rhetorical concepts: audience and voice; which motivates us to write and publish in our academic fields.” This is most certainly not what the writing center wants to promote not what professors themselves would want their students to do. No one wants to read or hear their ideas from someone else’s mouth in their own words. Writing is about fluidity and having the ability to just explore. The author states, “The purpose of telling professors what they already know expresses frustration over “devaluing” of personal observation and experience in the sciences and the need to couch every in someone else’s words in order to achieve credibility.” It is like what Bartholomae said in his article, “Inventing the University”, when you write you enable privilege which empowers your writing. Writing is about words and words are very powerful and must be used with great responsibility. With power like that why would you want to write other people’s words or tell them what you think they would like to hear? That my friend is pointless. Don’t write to impress, write what you know, explore, be original.
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