Blog 3

Wow, sea turtles...never thought I'd get that in Eng 470. The readings this week really presented nothing I haven't heard before. Visiting past experiences through writing in a classroom, as most others have noted, is risky. Sure writing about personal experiences adds a good deal of emotion to a piece of writing, but there are other ways to do this. Christina makes a great point when she brings up how students may write non-personal and stamp it as a life experience. That got me thinking, "gut" writing is exactly what most "writers" would say they do. Putting ones own views and experiences into writing, often indirectly, is a tool that I'd venture to say we all do in one way or another. This doesn't just stick for writing either, it's exactly what learning is.