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A place for Writing 12 students to read each other's writing, to critique, to suggest, to improve.
About Me
- Brad
- Former adult teacher who loves island beaches. Happy homebody and family man; once devoted dog owner, now without Tashi, my Tibetan Terrier. I prefer the absurdity of the imagination to the absurdity of imagining nothing.
11 comments:
I have to admit, I hate doing evaluating teachers because I guess I hate criticizing other people and feelings as well. But ever since high school, I’ve been evaluating teachers and TA (Teachers’ Assistance), and I, too, have been evaluated once when I was grade 11 doing TA for Japanese 10. And, I’ll tell you, being evaluated wasn’t fun at all, it makes me nervous as matter of fact. So, that is the reason I hate evaluation.
I’ll make it short, since I hate doing evaluation. Throughout this course, I have learned a lot from Brad. Especially with my confidence with writing and don’t be afraid to write what’s on my mind. And, he told us accept the criticism as if writings aren’t their own. Also, I was having fun with learning with others’ writing and interesting to do the blog homework.
Overall, it was fun doing blog homework and interesting for me to see each other’s writing. I will definitely miss all of you and good luck on their future.
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We Chinese say: chewing a piece of bread already chewed by others is dreadful. To me, it’s disgusting. One activity in this class I dislike is Imitating a Great Writer. No matter how great it is, it’s still a piece of bread chewed by others. And why I enjoy writing so much, because it’s creative, like giving birth to a baby, even it’s an ugly baby-- it’s still my own baby. I understand the purpose of doing this, but it kills all my inspirations. And it writing doesn't come out spontaneously; my paper becomes a piece of desert too.
One thing I appreciate a lot is the way using blog. It’s not only a convenience for the teacher to show us during the class throw a projector but also saving a lot of paper (plus, not every piece of writing is worthy of being printed out). So, I’d love to see this tradition and I know it will go on.
The writing—12 classes were interesting, and some exercises were really useful. The warm--up we did in our last term helped to improve imagination and vocabulary which is the important part of writing. I wish we had this exercise in every class.
The blog was of good use, too. We did homework looking at the work of our mates and teacher’s example. It made us read more. The following discussion on the homework in the class was very helpful in terms of having a feedback on the weaknesses and strength of our writings.
However, some time we had a lot of homework. If we had the homework one exercise at a time, we could concentrate (not rush), and had successful work.
I would like to thank Brad for his hard work, patience, and for helping us to progress.
To be completely honest, I enjoyed every part of the class. The work load was never too overwhelming, and everything went at a very good pace. I enjoyed all of the class exercises. It helped me in a variety of ways to improve my writing a great deal. I have even started my own online journal! Your teaching techniques are excellent—therefore it was easy to engage in the activities.
Overall it was a great learning experience, with a great learning environment. My only criticism would be to maybe focus a little more on other great writers. So that students can see more of what makes them so great, and maybe find ways to better their writing through that. Sometimes the best inspiration can come from trying to wrap your brain around those great thinkers.
Thanks for everything!
After reading Sloopy's evaluation, I am thinking if some short story reading could be invloved in this class it would be very helpful--for the beginning writer. Students can read it after class and write some response journal and discuss it. Comparing with imitationg only several sentence, it could make better sense.
We can write some short stories as well. Playing some games and make it fun. Like carrying the torch--the teacher can make a start with some chracters, background ect and the every week one student can contiune the story and make it whatever they like and till the end of the semester, we will get a huge story. The point is--one thing is essential in writing--imagination.
I definitely agree with Shadow. Adding some form of short story exercises could be an excellent learning tool for other students in the future.
yes, I totally agree with bea's idea... It could be fun with future students and our teacher as well...
I like Sloopy’s and Beatrice’s ideas, and I just wanted to say that we had these exercises on short stories in English Grade--11, and we wrote short stories in the last term of writing—12. We had characters and we had to play around on setting and have a plot of our own. It was fun!
One of the activities I’ve enjoyed the most in writing 12 is imitating great writers because students have the chance to get outside their own boxes and into great writers’, making them know that it takes practice to be a good writer.
In-class criticism and editing were also some activities I found helpful this term because it gave me ideas about how to criticize my own writing and others as well..
One thing I wished I had learned in writing 12 was writing plays and or even script (wide imagination, I have) because I also think, as a writer, you have to have ideas about all kinds of writing.
However, all the activities were fun and helpful and I wish that fun never ended.
What I like about the class is the teacher. Brad makes the class fun, with jokes and stories. I like the random journal topics. It is very challenging to write about different things. Thank you Brad!
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