White Writing is Right Writing

White Writing is Right Writing

When one enters grade school and then attends college, we were taught a curriculum and then tested on it to see if the information was grasped by students. This was done to see if one was ready to move on to the new information and to test ones ability of obtaining all the information that was taught. How can one judge if a student is ready for the next curriculum?  Every student grasp information differently because there might be a student that is grasping all the information but have weak writing skills and run on sentences.  One must think in terms as how do students feel more comfortable writing and expressing themselves. Because this makes students feel confident and more comfortable to write expressively then to write in a specific standard without being penalized.

I say this because I can relate to teachers letting me express myself in writing and even if it means saying some information in a different discourse. Every day students are given long books to read and annotate, book reports, and essays on different articles. But I bet if you asked all those students if they would rather write about their interest than the standard school material, they would go with their own interest. This leads to one to wonder why we can’t just combine the two. Have classes that help and meet the curriculum but at the same time help one understand that they can always write expressively.


 

There are students that fear English class and just simply dislike the course because of all the requirements they need to achieve. But I believe that’s not the problem I think that when a teacher put expectations and standards in classroom. Student’s mentally breakdown a little inside their head and think that if they don’t write in a proper English they will be marked wrong and get a horrible grade. But if teachers would simply tell students that they will not be graded by the way the write but simply by the value and effort but within class and assignments, there would be many students appreciated English more. But how will this help in the long run one like to say?

Yes there many people that say if one learns to just write an expressive term will they get a great career. I think that is true to a certain extent because the world will judge everything you do when you start a career everything must be written professionally and clearly. But when one learned to write with an open mind it helps them plot all their ideas better and feel free to express themselves at any moment.




 

Many times a simple answer to all this would be if an English course was just simply half curriculum and have expressive writing and reading. Although we need to prepare for the big world and what is out there. We need to learn how to perfect our writing skills by writing expressively, this will help one skills get better for the “real world”. We cannot limit ourselves in writing because we all express ourselves differently.