bartholomae vs. elbow

Elbow believes that credulity should be the governing ides in the undergraduate writing course and he wants his students to "trust" language. While Bartholomae is on the side of skepticism and wants his students to mistrust language or criticise it. when asked the questions: Are freshmen ready to think first and primarily about the problems of writing when they write? Is criticism an appropriate point of entry into the college curriculum? is it the job of college English to teach students to learn to resist and be suspicious of writing and the text? Bartholomae argues that Elbow would say no while he says yes to all the questions.
Bartholomae argues against a course that would not begin by being dismissive but would start by encouraging students to work opening essays to perfection. Elbow and Bartholomae differ on just how much time students should devote to reading in a writing course. Bartholomae believes that a series of required texts are central to his teaching method while Elbow doesn't focus on that so much.

Scissortail festival

I attended all the featured writers and I enjoyed them all way more than I thought I would enjoy the festival. I particularly enjoyed Elmer Kelton out of all of them though. Here is a man who is 80 something going on 90 and he is still getting around and enjoying speaking about his life and his works hes done in his lifetime. He made me realise that your never to old to do the things you love to do and you should never give up on them either and that is one way he inspired me. I have never read anything of his but now that I've heard him speak at the festival I plan to read his book on his life. He makes writing sound so effortless with that easy rhythm he has and that is something else he inspired me to be able to do one day.