Writing Steps:
A Recursive and Individual Experience
By: Bonnie Mary Warne
This article summarized what we have read in quite a few other articles. What I found especially useful was that she did not outlaw deadlines. In an effort to create flow and a feeling of creativity, we too often dismiss the important administrative details. Some students will work diligently on a writing project with enthusiasm and pride but there will be some who have struggle without a deadline and of course a few others who have a well-fed habit of doing only as much as is directly required of them. Naturally our goal is to get all of our students to a place where they are responsible for their own work but until they get there…
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I agree. She seemed to have a very real approach to teaching. I hate when you know as you are reading an article that it couldn't work in practice without some major management tweaks. I also appreciated meeting her face to face.
ReplyDeleteIT's that syndrome of filling up whatever time we have. If we don't give students deadlines, they will cruise or procrastinate. Besides, the real world has deadlines. School is a place to learn that reality. Even professional writers have deadlines. Book and magazines have schedules. Professionals have appointment books. We all live on a deadline of some kind--bills, trips to the grocery store, etc.
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