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Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006)
My thoughts have remained unchanged through the discussion on Bergmann and Zepernick’s article. Some of my classmates where surprised by the assertion by Bergmann and Zepernick that students tend to reject knowledge taught to them about writing. I was not surprised, like the students that where used in this article I saw most of the things taught in English as subjective and useless. Bergmann and Zepernick fail to sway me to think that the skills taught in their history course was useful, if the two of them focused on why these skills are useful more than the fact that students reject them I could have been swayed.
The novice and expert idea seemed basic, I didn’t quite understand the reasoning behind using it. For it goes with out saying that there are novices and experts, because there is always those that devote themselves to a discipline. But, I also had to consider from Yancey’s last article that most people aren’t experts. Which leads me to believe that the skill isn’t something that you have to go to college for unless you want to be a teacher or some other form of academic writer.
Overall the read was interesting and acknowledged some of my beliefs or feelings on the subject. But, the point of view was something different than my own so it gave me a little more to think about. I feel detached from the author in most of these articles which is probably why I’m not swayed by their views.
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