The most important thing I learned from boot camp was that it is okay to break the rules. My entire schooling career they always taught us to follow all sorts of precise rules and outlines. But if you want to break those rules, you it's OKAY. Writing is so much more than just writing a rogerian essay or constructing a one sentence thesis. It is about your purpose. What you want to do and how you want to convey that argument is completely your choice. There is much more freedom than they ever taught us, and therefore many students despise writing. If instead they let us make more of our own choices, maybe we would all be better writers. After all, we are in the land of the free aren't we? It's amazing how much of an impact you can have with words.
Love, Lauren
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That is so true! Like not being able to end a paragraph with a quote even though that is exactly what you wan to leave your reader thinking about. The point you made about doing whatever you need to get your message across was really key. It should be cool to see how much my writing is going to change this semester with all the rules being thrown out.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree and gained a lot of the same insight you did from our boot camp session! I wonder how different our English essays and thoughts about writing would have been if we would've gone through this boot camp 4 years ago!?
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