Taaching Writing Readings

Reading these three articles so far has been very interesting. I think they have some really great points and ideas in them. The first one that was such a huge long research written paper was too long and it had some good ideas and thoughts, but the other two I've liked more. Being written by teachers, I think they have a much different point of view and I especially appreciated the third article. If I were going to teach I would definitely take a lot of her ideas into account. I love the idea of the quick writes with the prompts and having students do them daily which makes them think and produce something in a short period of time. Then having them share them with one another is sucha a wonderful idea. The second article was good because the teacher was a coauthor with her students. They helped her write and she reciprocated, bt also had the students help one another. It just really shows that other people can be really helpful if you need a little nudge or you hit a wall with your writing. I have enjoyed learning what my fellow groupmembers have been reading as well. They've had some similarly interesting articles and reading their annotated bibliographies has been a great way to share the knowledge and get new ideas. I think that writing this memorandum will be daunting and knowing that I'll never have to actually do this in the future makes it feel less relevent to me.