Coming into this reading I was critical to say the least, I
was expecting it to be just another stuffy college level essay written by an
old white guy. Even though I was correct on the “old and white” aspect I found
the reading to be insightful. The author succeeded on multiple fronts especially
on reaching his target audience but there are a few things I took away from the
reading specifically that I want to focus on. The first is more along the lines
of “Ok, now what?”
What am I supposed to do with all this great information?
Personally I like to be told what to do, and while reading the article I was
waiting for the section that would read “how we fix this”. I was disappointed to
not be given this. However this may be the writer’s intent, to provoke different
individual thought not only in writing but how we might fix it. This however
greatly separated from my comfort zone. This being that I like to be instructed
on exactly what to do, but that might be exactly the thinking that the writer
wanted the audience and myself to secede from.
I now walk away with a bad feeling though, a feeling that says
all my papers have been fluff. A shabby skeleton with feathery fluff to fill it
in. I think now to my papers in high school and my freshman year in college
which must have been painful for my teachers to read. I just focused on word
count and bare minimum. But now I also see how my writing has progressed since
then, and although it still needs work, I am proud of where I have come from. But
even now I still struggle with separating from mainstream ideas in responses to
research or readings. This struggle comes from not tossing those aside like the
author addresses and digging deeper. Deeper into my inner most thoughts, ones
that I have from personal experience and learning.
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