Blog post 19#

This week we have read Disciplinarity and Transfer: Students’ Perceptions of Learning to Write by Linda S. Bergmann and Janet Zepernick in this they showed us the research they have conducted and to share it to have us learn about how and what college students believed about writing and responses from English classes and from the teachers in the classes. This is showing everyone the processes on how students learned to write and how they see it in ways. One of the first things that stuck out to me related to in the English Department included “fluff,” “b.s.,” and “flowery,” whereas in talking about the writing they did in other classes, students used descriptors such as “concise,” “to the point,” and “not a lot of flowery adjectives.” (Bergmann and Zepernick 125)” I was always used to being able to put things in papers that just added to meet the requaired word requirement in high school to where it would just add to add.

I also related was “Students tend to think of writing in English classes as personal or expressive rather than academic or professional” (Bergmann and Zepernick 129).” I related to that because I do that a lot in how I write and I express in my papers a lot and my writing instead of doing the academic side of what is required sometimes. You just get carried away and then you get off topic but you don’t want to take it out because you still worked hard on added that to your paper for say. That is how I see t go down for a lot f kids who right they get to carried away and just add their opinion instead of just adding what they need to accomplish the objective of the project or assignment at hand.

After reading this I realized how much i relate to this and how many other people write and learn like me with English. This is an eye opener because I thought I was one of very few people who did things like this and learned that way. I saw this that stuck out to me too . “Students think of this personal writing (that is, the writing they do in English classes) as a “natural” act–like engaging in conversation” (Bergmann and Zepernick 129)” I really liked that when I saw it because that’s how I look at writing a natural act sometimes and its hard not to that just how I learn and write and that was a good way of describing it. I never really thought about writing like that until I read that.