ENG 111 September 18th, 2006
"The Death and Resurrection of Writing"
In life, we sometimes have something we enjoy and then a driving force kills your passion. In my life, writing was my passion. I would write all the time; but my eighth grade English teacher did not care for my passion. A force came over and murdered my passion. After the death of my passion, I thought it was dead for the rest of my life; but the passion resurrected with help from a comforting force. Even when a passion is killed, it can always be revived.
Now your passion for writing has been killed. Here are five ways that your writing can be killed. The number five way is having your teacher grade the paper and never put comments on how you can improve. If you don’t get feedback, how can you move a C to an A. The number four way is to have a teacher who degrades your self being. Teachers that do not foster a positive and safe learning atmosphere may cause the student to feel uncomfortable and make the student unwilling to write openly. The number three way is always getting a low grade on the paper. If you keep getting an F on your papers, why should you waste your time and spend time writing the paper? The number two way is writing on the same boring topic. If your paper’s topic is always, what is the conflict of the book. You will get bored and feel like you are writing in a hole and you can’t get out. The number one way to kill your passion for writing is focusing on the appearance and not the content. You are more concerned with having every word spelled correctly than what the central point is. You worry if you don’t have three examples of the main character pouring out their emotions. Now your passion for writing is dead. Goodbye old friend.
You have nothing left to do; but to sit and cry yourself to sleep.
Like Jesus rose from the dead, so too can your passion for writing can be resurrected.
Like there are five ways to kill your passion, there are five ways to resurrect your passion. The number five way is journal writing. Writing on a random topic like if you could be on any television show what would it be, helps to reinvigorate your writer’s juices. The number four way is writing on a topic you have chosen. It adds variety to your writing and it alleviates your boredom. By you choosing the topic, you can write more on the topic. The number three way is to have people encouraging you. If you have someone in your life that is willing to help you on your way, then you would use their resources and get excited about writing. The number two way is trying new forms to write. Don’t always write an essay. Change how many sentences are in a paragraph. Change where the main point is in your writing. The number one way to resurrect your passion is use voice. If you write in the same boring, educated male voice, you get bored. Add humor to your writing. Make the paper fun and experience new ways to phrase your ideas. Use a conversation voice. Now, your passion for writing has risen from the dead. Now, writing does not have to be a task but an enjoyable experience.
Even though my passion for writing was killed, over time it came back with help of an outside force. My eighth grade English teacher killed my writing because she did not nurture my passion. My ninth grade and tenth grade English teacher helped revive it by adding new opportunities for writing. Writing does not need to be an odious task; but some one can make someone’s passion a devilish task. My passion was killed; but I used the resources around me to create methods to resurrect it. A passion never leaves you. It sometimes hides from plain sight.
One: Situating Embodied Learning
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Identity and Learning: “Follow What I Am Doing: Do The Rules That I’m Doing: It’s Very CoM-pli-cated”
- Producelike Behavior: "Why Do The Make Queen Better Than Jack?"
- Conclusion: "The Bricolage, The Music, The Movement"
Three: Implications for the Literacy Autobiography Assignment
