Reading Essays after Reading

[COBLENTZ@DT3.DT.UH.EDU]

Right before I settled down to read a set papers, I re-read Jonathon
Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."  How do you think this
reading affected the way I responded to the papers.  I'm thinking of re-
reading then after I re-read Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government."
Do you think this will affect my responses?  I've yoked the two together in a
"Sin and Society" themeatic uit that immediately follows the "City on the 
Hill and Attitudes toward Slavery" segment in my American lit survey course.

This may seem to be a frivolous question, but it really is not.  We'll probably
all admit that what we read about responding to writin
g and tutoring.  HHow does
the reading we do beyond that affect us?  My screen goes screwy when a new 
message comes in, so I can't really tell if my line of thought has been totally
disrupted.   we are
affected by what we read about teaching and grading  


I give up on being coherent.  The bings, bangs, and disruptions have left me
dingy.  If you didn't get my question, it is whether or not the rest of you
think that your tutooring and responding to student writing is affectected
by the reading you do outside of writing center theory and practice
and compositon theory?

I suspect it has enriched my response, but I may be the chaff bowing in the 
wind, the spider suspended over the fire, embarked on a slippery slope, a
majority of one.

Linda Coblentz
UH-Downtown