Wednesday, April 13, 2011

P1: Rewriting Paragraph

This project is mainly targeted to the instructors that make up standardized test prompts. Maybe they can learn from students test scores, they can realize that if a student is given the opportunity to write about what they know and what inspires them, they may just have amazing results in the writing areas. Each students inspiration comes from a different source or experience. For someone who is into games and graphics, a prompt on “ the influence of games into the learning environment” might interest them more than for someone who has never picked up a video game in their life. Another example would be for someone who is a sports fanatic, a prompt such as “ how can a playing a sport be an experience for a good writer and reader”. For some people, good writing is created when someone is frustrated, for others one must be happy and cheerful. Having differed topics or guides instead of narrow and one pointed prompts would be beneficial for many students. By rethinking the way prompts are made, and considering taking the students interest which will spark inspiration, maybe the standardized testing prompts wouldn't be so bad and overwhelming. If administrators could leave open ended prompts that allows the student to write about what they know or inspires them, they can easily achieve more. For these reasons I personally believe that students should be given the right to write about a topic they chose, It would make their writing much more interesting. It would be necessary to implement proper grammar and writing structure, which can be taught, on the other hand inspiration can’t. This just comes to show that inspiration is very hard to captivate, since we are all different types of learners and mainly influenced by different experiences, which build our own inspirations.

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