The Murray Didn't Abide
This week Ryan and I gave presentations about Donald Murray's A Writer Teaches Writing . My part of the presentation focused on how Murray's novel pedagogy is and has been applicable to writing center services. Ryan devoted his classroom presentation to baseless attacks on Murray in an effort to discredit him for sport.
I applied Murray's ideas of peer consultation, student centered consultation and how writing should be viewed as a processess rather than a final product. Ryan disagreed. One other point I touched on is that Murray felt that writing was of fundamental importance because it is difficult. This helped me to come to understand that MSU Writing Center can offer services to above average writers by challenging them to take on more difficult tasks.
Furthermore, the University has a vested interest in making poor writers good, good writers great, and great writers exceptional.
R.I.P. Donald Murray
4 comments:
Et tu, David?
Ryan.
STOP
Please don't compare yourself to Julius Caesar.
STOP
Between you and I, who would really lead Rome and be assassinated?
STOP
Krish is Callugula, by the way.
STOP
We have the same birthday. July 13th. And I get queasy come the Ides of March. Coincidence? Who cares?
And I'm sorry, but who's the one getting the knife in the back, by the way? One need only look to your post. The parallels are ASTOUNDING. The Romans didn't buy Brutus' game for long, either. And Dante has quite a fate reserved for him as well...
CALIGULA. Come on, you're smarter than that.
Now I'll fiddle (did they have fiddles back then? Can one "lyre"?) while this blog burns.
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this exchange in both the comments section and the blogpost. A+ on the entertainment of your classmates
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