The training today has certainly helped me with reconciling myself to the thought of starting school in a week. For the last few weeks, I have been occupied with thoughts of being pregnant and how that will affect all other aspects of my life. Helping others write more thought provoking, well-thought-out papers should, in turn, help me be able to focus on the important changes that are about to occur.
I have always thought of myself as a writer, so it is in the helping of others that I will find my challenges. It will be difficult to hold myself back from putting too much of myself into their work, and to keep myself from possibly changing their writerly voice.
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Are we going to start using the word writerly in everyday conversation? It sounds so...stuffy. As if we should be throwing words such as "heretofore" and "thus" in our everyday speaking.
hence, we shall naught sound like ourselves.
I agree that it might be hard to hold myself back from putting too much into someone else's work. When I look at a paper I find myself rewording things to make it better, and must focus on just fixing and not rewriting their paper. That then leads me to talking with that person about what could make their paper better. So I guess it is the good with the bad.
Oh, I want to teach college level. I know that means I'll be adjuncting here, teaching intro classes there.
But, if I can latch on to a university, they can always pay for my Ph.D...
Yes, I know the horror of adolescents. I can barely handle adults sometimes, let alone those little buggers.
I'm so pleased that you two have already begun to identify the issues in "putting too much of ourselves" into other peoples' papers! That's half the battle.
We'll talk more about those writerly voices tomorrow.
[If you use a word enough it will begin to sound old-hat, like "pickle." Can you imagine its first use?]
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