"For this post, I read and annotated the following three readings:
I have chosen these following quotes from this reading Teaching Writing as a Process Not a Product by Don Murray, as they stood out to me the most. I believe these quotes are important for, not only English Composition, but in anything we, as humans, can learn. I believe these can be applied to everyday situations like parenting and work environments. If everyone taught with the intention of teaching and learning from their students, I think people would be a lot more successful. 1. “And you don’t learn a process by talking about it, but by doing it. 2. “We have to respect the student, not for his product, not for the paper we call literature by giving it a grade, but for the search for truth in which he is engaged. We must listen carefully for those words that may reveal a truth, that may reveal a voice.” 3. “It is the responsibility of the student to explore his own world with his own language, to discover his own meaning.” The next three quotes are from The Daily Routines of Great Writers collected by Maria Popova. I have chosen these quotes in hopes to follow them into great writing routines. 1. “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.” – E.B. White 2. “I will write in the notebook every day.” – Susan Sontag 3. “If the work is going well, I spend a quarter or half hour reading what I wrote the day before, and I make a few corrections. Then I continue from there. In order to pick up the thread, I have to read what I’ve done.” – Simon de Beauvoir The three quotes I have chosen next are from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott I chose these quotes to serve as a reminder that writing isn’t always easy, but as long as you have an idea in mind, it will eventually write itself through you. 1. “You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you.” 2. “Very few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it.” 3. “Beginners are learning to play, and they need encouragement to keep their hands moving across the page." Below, I have also added three of my own quotes about writing, as I have had time to think about them as I was reading. 1. “Sometimes writing just happens. You start with a topic or an idea, and you don’t realize how much you actually have to say about the subject. Before you know it, you have a completed paper or story.” 2. “It doesn’t matter where or when you start, it just matters that you do start.” 3. “Whenever you write, do it with passion – even if you don’t care about what you are writing about. Pretend you care more and see where it takes you.”
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