Re: bawking

[bobbie silk <bsilk@keller.clarke.edu>]

My goodness, Don, you want a political and social conceptual revolution. 
I admire that, even though I never could develop a taste for hijiki.

  --Bobbie  ;)

On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Don Socha wrote:

> Dear Bobbie, while I could assert that the letter 's' was tapped a bit too lightly in my
> last post, I choose to apologize for the gendered typo instead.
> 
> Yes, my concerns have mostly to do with context.  Analogies of medicine and physical
> therapy are both inwardly oriented about what is 'wrong' with the student writer or with
> hir product.  Because I prefer to think of myself as more consultant than tutor, I am
> guilty of having an inordinate faith in how a greater interest in writing can outwardly
> enhance a person's life;  that of any person at any level of skill.  The same goes for
> the more wholistic principles of macrobiotics, which to my mind, have more to do with
> the enhancement of sensual awareness, and learning to live more harmoniously and
> compassionately with our environment, than with mere nutrition.  Does this mean that the
> majority of writing center clients would have to be taught the value of changing their
> Standard American Discourse (SAD)?  Yes, and chiefly by example.
> 
> Because I think the context for basic writers has to be 'rewritten', to my mind, this
> necessarily involves your 'already successful writers'.  What makes them successful
> should be evident in our appreciation of their discourse.  It's less what they've
> consumed than what they produce, but less what they produce than the affects of that
> production.  Initially, a more healthy, wholistic change of context would involve a
> reconsideration of writing itself as, for example, always healthy, never "sickly".
>