Analysis Of Suzanne Laverick Harrington's Article 'Our Own Stories'

Suzanne Laverick Harrington’s article “Our own stories- One teacher’s writing journey: Hey I’ve been there,” from The Reading Teacher (1998) explains that writer’s block, can be fixed if teachers were able to boost the confidence of their students. Harrington first backs her assertion with ways to prevent writer’s block with an antidote that works for her; second, with an explanation of her own struggles as an obsessed writer; and lastly, through her experience working with students who are “paralyzed with fear” in a classroom. Her purpose of writing this article is to inform rookie writers to not fear this so called disease as a way of giving up on the one thing they love. Even though Harrington writes this article to writers, her way of writing and her eye catching title attracts young college students who are struggling with their writings who crave help for their ideas to flow into their own work. Suzanne Laverick Harrington begins her article by introducing the different ways she avoids her responsibility of finishing her writing for her writing group that meets every two months such as, visiting art exhibits, meeting with old friends, and reading junk …show more content…
I felt like was drowning in my own thoughts of discouragement. I have never written a research paper before and my teacher assumed she helped her class with understanding the route to take to start this paper. Classmates expressed their worries, while others talked about how they wrote and rewrote their papers countless times. That is the main point of Harrington’s article: to reassure her students that she has been there while giving them a dose of encouragement, just like her instructor did for her. This is what teachers are supposed to do in their own classrooms, instead of sitting on their desk checking emails. Now that I have read this article, I can clam down and take short steps to complete and writing assignment thrown my