Becoming A Better Writer :: Teaching Education Essays

Becoming A Better WriterWhy did the chicken cross the road? We all told know the answer of course. Yet we appease to ask this question in order to solicit the obvious response, ...to get to the other side. Why do we ask questions or pose problems that have only 1 dissolver? Weve all heard the excusesThats the way I learned how to do it.If it aint broke, dont specialize itIm only doing what I was told.I dont know another way.Chances are, if youre perusing the circumscribe of this paper, you have probably used, at unitary time or another, one or all of the above rationalizations. Dont get me wrong. Id be the first one to admit that rationalizations are an important part of life. Some, but not many, would beseech that rationalizations are more important than sex. I mean, have you ever done for(p) a week without a rationalization? It is your ability to rationalize that allows you to continue to construct themes of generic babble. You know that the mindless banter that it is typic al of much(prenominal) endeavors allow for get you a fair, if not exceptional, mark from the professor whose consort for which you wrote it. There is certainly no shame in turning in such regurgitation. After all, you were just, ...doing what you were told, right? Youre not alone. This single rationalization allows half(prenominal) of the free world to sleep at night. The other half has a prescription.I want to change, you cry halfway through what had been a slumberous night. Youve decided to kick the theme-writing habit. How do I do it? you ask the fast(prenominal) rocking chair that you sat in as a child. Incidentally, if the chair answers, youre problems will be addressed in another paper. However, getting back to the toil at hand, you can probably deduce that this theme writing wrong-doing will be hard to conquer. You get by for a quarter, or semester, without needing one and then BAM You need a fix. Briefly outline the Kennedy administration, appears as an essay questio n on a 20th Century American History exam, for which you havent thoroughly prepared yourself. You casually glance around the room. No ones looking. Just one little theme, you say to yourself. But the pointless throw away doesnt stop with this essay. The next week youll do it again. Soon your up to a theme a day.Why is it so hard?