Standards As A Whole

National Council of Teachers of English:

Standards as a whole are necessary strict guidelines that educators must follow to meet the needs of the state. In this article, it mentions how these standards are created based on research from over 40 years ago and it is based on language, assessments, and literacy. These allow teachers to create their lessons based on these standards and improve their practice in order to better their performance and their students’ academic performance.

College Composition and Communication:

One thing that this article highlights is “Sound Writing” which I’ve never heard that term before, or at least I do not remember hearing about the term. It was interesting to read about it though. Something I learned from it is that it exposes people to different genres, is centered on feedback from multiple audiences, and has a great technological development involvement. “We are in a moment of mass misinformation designed to use language to divide rather than unite” is such a powerful statement. I feel like, especially on Google, there are loads of misinformation and this is looking at it in a more technology-based approach, but in postsecondary writing, there is a lot of research that needs to be done and we need to make sure that this information is accurate and true. I also like the conclusion section, and maybe this might be just me, but I took it as writing can truly unit the world together which now that I think more deeply about it a lot of writing can be miscommunicated and my brain goes straight to politics and how writing and communication can go a long way when trying to unite the world.

Council of Writing Program Administrators:

Reading this text it reminded me of the college composition class offered at Kean. If I am being completely honest, I remember nothing from this course. It was during COVID, online, so I may have been sleeping during it, but you didn’t hear that from me. I have all of my work from that class, all the papers, etc but the only thing I am missing is the memory of the class. This is a course that is mandatory no matter what your major is, so it is interesting how this course can relate no matter what you are pursuing in college.

In the article, it gave the course outcomes, and as I am reading them, and reading back on my analysis papers, I feel like I did not reach the “standards”. I did pass the class with a good score, but I look back at my freshman self taking this and am like “What were you thinking?”. Blame covid, haha. I feel like through the variety of different writing courses I have taken, I have learned all of these outcomes. So over time, these outcomes are built into me through the other writing courses I took. Another thing that I would like to highlight is “develop a writing project through multiple drafts” and I believe I mentioned this in another blog post or maybe just during class, but a lot of times we are taught to “write and dump”. By this, I mean writing a paper and then forgetting about it the next week, and like I mentioned before maybe we did some revisions within it but from my knowledge, I do not remember and I feel like we never did that. Also, last thing, even if we did do revisions and peer review/feedback, it more than likely was not helpful during the class.