Re: Criteria time
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Fri, 09 Jan 1998 12:08:49 -0700 (MST)
One of the hardest things to teach freshmen in college is that revision
suggestions are a gift...as a writer I am humble and thankful when
intelligent folks take time to read and comment...some of the list tension
today strikes me as folks needing personal attention instead of wanting
thinking but I'm no different...we all want to be loved and loving ideas
is a bit more difficult than other types of love...that's why the glass
dudes are so f'ing cool, isn't it? will
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Tim O'Connor wrote:
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> > earlier post). Now, what happens when "idea" directed comments are taken
> > personally--when they are taken as brow beating? This happens a lot too. A
> > lot of this does have to do with tone, tho, and the way the ideas are
> > presented, but a lot of it also has to do with the how secure the persons
> > reading idea directed comments are.
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> Good point there. You're right about that, which is that some of us have
> higher or lower thresholds. And as I am sure Will shall point out (Aside
> to Will: I feel very strange saying "Will will point out."), part of the
> teaching process is in helping students understand that a critique of a
> work is not a critique of a person. Which (I think) is what we're agreeing
> on.
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> I'd be interested in hearing from people who felt that they were under
> attack; it would make things here perhaps clearer -- and certainly add a
> little spice!
>
> --tim
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