When Mesopotamians carved their first words on walls, a new technology to communicate emerged to humans. Various civilizations that followed created a similar system of communicating and documenting everything from their thoughts, social structures, feelings, to their ideas. The Egyptians documented their journeys through Hieroglyphics. Mesoamericans documented theirs through Zapotic, Olmec and Mayan scriptures. These scriptures weren’t random scribbles by any means. They were scriptures that were based on laws that governed said civilizations, along with the environments that surrounded them.
The Hieroglyphic word for horizon is a graphic of the sun setting along two pyramid shapes. To me, this seems like a word that was coined based on a …show more content…
She addresses the difficulties associated with teaching writing, emphasising that the process of teaching needs to be approached in a way where the student is encouraged to write in their own voice. Perhaps, to some students, writing is just another weight over their shoulders. However, this is not what writing, in your own voice, is all about. It’s much more of a personal journey where the writer and their piece become one entity. The piece can not exist without the writer, and vice versa. A generic obscure approach to writing defeats the purpose of learning writing altogether. Hence, in order for students to grasp their voices, they need to at least start communicating them to their teachers. It’s only then that teachers are able to help bring out these voices. Sommers writes “Unlike my father, I must sometimes convince my customers, my students, to take an interest in a coat whose pattern they haven't imagined.” (423, The Language of Coats) I think this is a particularly lovely metaphor in which Sommers compares her students’ voices with patterned coats. It gives the reader a better idea of how teaching is similar to convincing someone to start enjoying something they might have never tried, or never took the chance, to enjoy …show more content…
Many students tend to overlook their potential in writing great papers that resonates deeply with them. Personally, however, I think at one point I did suffer from not being able to articulate my thoughts into words. It wasn’t my teacher’s fault, nor was it entirely my fault. My personal experience with writing could be described differently than that of others. For example, English is not my first language. I just happened to practice it more so than others. It doesn’t mean that I’m nearly half decent at writing, and I don’t think I’d say I’m terrible at it either. At the end of the day, it’s still a hassle to experience being stuck trying to find the proper word to describe something. At this point, I think I have gained the ability to write with my own voice, nonetheless. My only issue is overcoming the constant writer’s block that I deal with whenever I need to write something I’m not entirely interested in. With that being said, she makes me feel jealous of her writing ability. I truly admire her writing skills, and the way she presents her points and claims. Just like the Egyptian that created the first graphic for the horizon, I want to share my voice with the world and create my own
The Hieroglyphic word for horizon is a graphic of the sun setting along two pyramid shapes. To me, this seems like a word that was coined based on a …show more content…
She addresses the difficulties associated with teaching writing, emphasising that the process of teaching needs to be approached in a way where the student is encouraged to write in their own voice. Perhaps, to some students, writing is just another weight over their shoulders. However, this is not what writing, in your own voice, is all about. It’s much more of a personal journey where the writer and their piece become one entity. The piece can not exist without the writer, and vice versa. A generic obscure approach to writing defeats the purpose of learning writing altogether. Hence, in order for students to grasp their voices, they need to at least start communicating them to their teachers. It’s only then that teachers are able to help bring out these voices. Sommers writes “Unlike my father, I must sometimes convince my customers, my students, to take an interest in a coat whose pattern they haven't imagined.” (423, The Language of Coats) I think this is a particularly lovely metaphor in which Sommers compares her students’ voices with patterned coats. It gives the reader a better idea of how teaching is similar to convincing someone to start enjoying something they might have never tried, or never took the chance, to enjoy …show more content…
Many students tend to overlook their potential in writing great papers that resonates deeply with them. Personally, however, I think at one point I did suffer from not being able to articulate my thoughts into words. It wasn’t my teacher’s fault, nor was it entirely my fault. My personal experience with writing could be described differently than that of others. For example, English is not my first language. I just happened to practice it more so than others. It doesn’t mean that I’m nearly half decent at writing, and I don’t think I’d say I’m terrible at it either. At the end of the day, it’s still a hassle to experience being stuck trying to find the proper word to describe something. At this point, I think I have gained the ability to write with my own voice, nonetheless. My only issue is overcoming the constant writer’s block that I deal with whenever I need to write something I’m not entirely interested in. With that being said, she makes me feel jealous of her writing ability. I truly admire her writing skills, and the way she presents her points and claims. Just like the Egyptian that created the first graphic for the horizon, I want to share my voice with the world and create my own