The investment that I have in this class is interesting, well at least to me anyways! I have wanted to take this course because I have toyed with the idea of teaching (I really would love to teach at the college level) and thought this would be a great way to imerse myself into what it is really like to teach writing. Personally, I love to write, my favorite kind of writing though is research. I love to find something I am interested in and passionate about, then go and find all the information that I can possibly find about that topic and write about it to share it with others. I also love to present what I find in my research to others. Due to my personal interest in this course, I am truly hoping to learn different scholars points of view on how to teach a writing course. I have my own ideas, but I wonder what the so called "know-it-alls" have to say about teaching composition.
The video drew me in because I have learned about so many of the scholars in other writing courses that I have taken here at Texas Wesleyan. Several of the scholars interviewed are ones that I am particularly interested in for different types of research. It is so fascinating to hear from most of them how scared they were when they first went into teaching composition and so it makes me even more interested in wanting to discover their theories and how they developed them.
Really nothing on the video surprised, except maybe the idea that they were all nervous in one form or another when teaching in the beginning. I know that the video gave me some ideas as to what I am interested in possibly researching more.
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