Reflection On English Language Writing Instruction

Murray is insightful not only to instructors but also to learners. Murray argues that the challenge facing writing is the fact that teachers have treated it as a product rather than a process and the same concept passed on to students. The author holds that the main problem with this view is that students get to receive irrelevant criticisms that are not related to their learning goals. While I tend to agree with the author based on the arguments presented, it is notable that Murray has paid little attention to the idea of education in the contemporary world. In most learning institutions, the outcome of the writing is considered more than the process. As a teacher paying attention to the process of writing but not be consistent with the students, who are mostly driven by

The author Amy Crawford wrote the article, "Who was Cleopatra?". She is trying to explain who is Cleopatra. The author ineffective explain how she is a skill leader by going off topic and being bias. In Amy Crawford article she goes off topic. The author stated, "...

Jared Diamond is a world renowned scientist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and currently a geography professor at UCLA. Of his six books published, we will be looking at the last chapter of his fourth book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. In this book Diamond utilizes the comparative method to find resemblance in past societal collapses with our current society. In the chapter entitled, "The World as Polder: What Does it Mean to Us Today," Diamond points out that there are indeed many parallels between past and present societies and that our modern day society is currently on a path of self destruction , through examples such as globalization and the interdependency of each country.

For example, Clark explains how at the rate students are going, achieving the “American Dream” they have seen all over television will be next to impossible. For starters, not being able to pass the Basic Skills Test is an indicator of the path that many of the students are headed on, if they do not turn things around. Another approach Clark takes is persuading the teachers to give more of an effort into teaching the students. By forcing the teachers to host after school tutoring sessions, he is able to increase the average Basic Skills Test score as time goes on. A problem Clark is faced with is getting the students to take time out of their day to go to school to learn. As a solution, Clark tells teachers that they will go door by door recruiting students for the tutoring sessions, because the students will not come on their own. Once again, Clark puts fear into the students, but he also pushes the teachers to teach more and finds way to bring students to the tutoring

learning enough in school due to the lack of organization in the curriculum. He discusses the

Logan Pearsall Smith once said, “Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each other’s fur.” All be it an overwhelmingly disgusting image, Smith’s words are true when it comes the art and science of putting pencil to paper. In the classroom, students should be able to be vulnerable, honest, accountable and “real” in their writing so that they may grow to become better writers. It is the responsibility of the teacher to insure a quality learning environment that is conducive to these three factors. Observing the writing process and identifying the experiences within, be them personal, direct or indirect, contribute to how the educator teaches students using best practices.

Mrs. Graves is a middle school educator who has been teaching in a seventh and eighth grade special education resource program for two years; she provides support in subjects such as English and Mathematics. Additionally, Mrs. Graves is ahead of a “Study Skills” period where she has a window of opportunity to teach students how to better prepare themselves with school work such as: organizing notes, studying for tests, and gaining the main ideas of textbook chapters. However, it seems that each year Mrs. Graves teaches this class period she finds herself unhappy with the outcome of how it is managed. Mrs. Graves says that she wants this time to be used to help her students learn basic study skills that can help them in all their classes. Instead, the class

I Strongly Disagree with Anne Hendricks Article because everyone has their way of doing things. Instructors has different ways of helping their students, be it to study or to learn. This is important to me because Anne Hendricks style of teaching is not the only way of helping students succeed. In her essay she came out in a way that she was letting the other instructors in her department know that they are all doing it wrong because the other instructors have a tendency to help students until they become confident in being able to think critically. Therefore she wants everybody to adapt to her style. So my arguments can lead to an understanding that people are different and everyone has a way to learn to think critically. An instructor helping a student who needs more time to learn knows for a fact that when the student grasp what the concept is, he or she can go on and feel comfortable thinking on its own, than letting the student going to figure out what he or she needs to do alone. I will start by using Anne Hendricks statement from one of her subtopics “where does a teacher responsibility end” I will compare our past readings with Anne Hendricks “Teaching with Compassion”.

not teaching students the things they should know or need to know”, (Porter, 2015.) but perhaps

Students that are not able to keep up with the classroom will be missed and the problem will not be caught early. The point of school is for the children to learn and with every new grade level the skill should increase. For those children that are just being passed to the next level they are not receiving the proper attention needed in order to eventually be able to keep up. “The

First, the writing class helps one on tests. From SATs to finals, writing is needed. If one is not strong in writing, they miss a huge part of their tests. Even though the student may know the right answers, if they can’t write well, there is no point. It's like listening to two same age high school students speak against each other. However, they both are speaking about the same topic. Whoevers voice, explanation and stance is better would win more approval. The same thing applies when it comes to tests. The better written, the more likely a teacher

Goals to accomplish during English Composition are improving weak points as mentioned in Journal 1: grammar, word choice, and vocabulary. Also mentioned, these components are crucial to improving in writing and are used to become a good writer. To improve as a writer is one goal, another is to simply do well in the class, pass, and obtain the credit. Furthermore, as a dual enrollment student, taking this class is more a less a sneak peak of growing up and moving onto college. Part of the college experience is the advancement from high school, with this, there is a change of mind, change of grading, change of atmosphere, et cetera.

In the practice of teaching, it is the responsibility of a teacher not only to teach students subject matter, but to teach students in order to enable them to grow and develop as a person. While it is essential for students to have an understanding of academic material, it is also equally as important that when students finish their education they have skills to use in

Students are to understand the four major greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere and perform two experiments to address the hydrologic, or water, cycle. One experiment requires 20 ml of 60 °C put into a sealed canning jar with a petri dish filled with ice on top; this experiment is used to visualize the water cycle. Then, for the second experiment, students are to construct two identical plastic bags, each filled with 200 ml of room temperature sand and 200 ml of room temperature water. One of these bags is to be exposed to sunlight for 12 hr and the other to the shade for the same amount of time; this experiment is used to visualize water infiltration and the hydrologic cycle.

Over the course of this past semester, my ability to write has improved tremendously. Prior to undertaking this course, my expertise in writing was not as fine-tuned as it should have been. I had never previously been enrolled in a class specifically tailored to writing-- which was quite clear. Upon reading my past works, it becomes apparent that my writing style consisted of fluff, small words, and inconsistently structured sentences. These problems have, for the most part, been remedied with the coursework I have tackled in College Writing. Rather than long, drawn out papers that take an eternity to reach the primary point, my recent work is much nicer in terms of composition and grammar. I credit these improvements to the three primary