Q and R 1

Why should students be expected to feel comfortable with writing pieces that are “not perfect” when learning this method of learning writing skills?

It didn’t make sense to me that this type of teaching would be a good idea because of its one major shortcoming. To ask students to completely reevaluate the way they approach writing in school is a good idea but why do it in such a manner that is so drastic and fast that they have adjust quickly? Why should they accept the idea that flawed work is an acceptable outcome from them? I do believe that we as students should learn how to write the way competent journalists, scholars and researchers write. Even though the class supports imperfection in writing in exchange for depth and understanding, I do not believe that we can accomplish these tasks without learning how expert writers compose their pieces. The approach of “writing about writing” cannot be complete in its purpose without first showing students how to read about writing. How can we learn to express ourselves correctly when we are writing if we as students were not taught to do so or even learn to realize what the purpose of writing is? How do we know how to write a competent research paper if we have not been taught what makes them valid? Should teachers be accepting of the sort of writing this method produces because we have not been taught correctly? Should students learn to accept their work as sufficient when it is flawed? I do not think we invest so much effort in our education to learn how to settle with our work because we do not know how to do certain things. I do no think students should be allowed to turn in imperfect work, not because I think students should be perfect but because we are trying to learn how to do things to the best of our abilities. I think this method of teaching should not just ask students to “figure out” on their own how they should be writing , but be taught through respected authors and pieces how to analyze a topic and how to make their writing multidimensional. If we can understand what kind of thought process we must initiate to become a competent writer, we can learn what our own style is and what our purpose is for what we decide to write about. This method should teach us to figure out what authors are trying to do with their writings, what reactions they are trying to invoke, and what authors do to make their pieces respectable. The new method we are learning should then teach us how to do those same things with our writings, so they too can become valid and competent pieces that do not have to be considered flawed.
If students learn to ask and answer certain questions that invoke the kind of thinking this method or learning to write is asking of us, through example, there would be no need for us to accept our work when it is flawed. We should be equipped to write complete pieces that do not lack in depth and understanding.