Blog #5 - Lindemman's Chapter 12: Teachers Sharing Their Writing

 Hello, 

In reading Chapter 12 by Lindemman, I was really impressed with the idea of teachers sharing their writing to their students. I had this experience in my undergraduate years. I had one of my English 1A professors share an excerpt from a book they'd written, which was on the usage of language and its literary means. This was not the only experience but there had also been another time when I was taking a Shakespeare class at West LA college and Dr. Katherine Boutry, one of my favorite professors, left me speechless with her book, "The West Guide to Writing: Success to Community College to University". Firstly, a lot of the material she had written greatly influenced my own writing but more of the inspiration she brought as a professor. She interacted with us as students, and I think by including her own writing materials as part of our curriculum, allowed us to have a lot of confidence in what we are learning. It made us depend more on the professor because we recognized that their own writing had been influential and lead to even creating a book focusing on students to develop core learning strategies and apply it into their transition from community college to the upper division courses found at the undergraduate level. Returning back to the discourse taught within this course, I do see the significance and importance of having a teacher and/or professor utilize their own writing as teaching tools in the class. It bridged the gap between a teacher and student, developing that relationship and understanding that both can BE scholars. 

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