Standing Ovation: Response to lenachka's article on Ken Robinson

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Response to lenachka's article on Ken Robinson

I fully agree with Lenachka's response to Ken Robinson's video. I feel fearful all the time about being wrong about what i'm doing. I feel like fear has taken over so much of my life that sometimes i feel like i could be doing so much more with my life. When i was a child i was diagnosed with ADHD and was told that there was something wrong with me because i couldn't sit still. Although i "grew out" of my disorder, the mentality i had as a child of being afraid that people would not like me because i was too "hyper" or "stupid" has traslated directly to how fearful and self concious i am today, even if it is not for the same reason as before. If somebody had noticed my obnoxious sound making in class as my future aspiration as a musician and actually helped me instead of putting me on medication, i don't think i would be as fearful as i am now.

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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Standing Ovation”! The title of this blog refers to the audience of active readers we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! I encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. I hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it!