Responce Essay
Dear Patricia Nelson Limerick,
Your article; Dancing with Professors: The Trouble with Academic Pose was assigned in my English 111 class. I began reading your article as any other regular old reading, but soon I became engrossed with it. Not only was your article well written but the underline meanings behind it snagged my attention. Your article reinforces the basis of the difficulty to assimilate professors' academic pose by adding the idea of giving the students a chance to find their voice. Students should be encouraged to find their own voice in order to strive for success within academia. If students don’t find their own academic voice they will continuously follow blindly and merely inmate their proffers’.
College professors are hiding in their own entanglement of words with no clarification in their responses. You criticized college professors for their shy, timid and even fearfulness ways of writing with “dull, difficult pose.” In doing so you have stood up for all struggling college students, this clearly shows in your quote, “when professors undertake to appraise and improve students writing, the blind are leading the blind.” And just how are we as students, to have a strong academic voice when it is to be all jumbled with useless jargon. We are not learning to think but rather shielding our true options in mimicking our professors’ voices. Berry Alford wrote Freirean Voices, Student Choices to encourage students to use their “student voices.” In order to do so they have to “earn their way into a meaningful academic voice instead of merely learn how to imitate one.”
If we as students continue to mimic other’s dull voices this academic jargon pelage will continue. I feel a grave need to help the college professors first before they can help the students. I feel now with this information I can attempt to break the ongoing cycle and let lose my creative student voice. I will respectfully challenge my professors to look at the way they write, and how they can improve as writers with strong voices. Thank you for a wonderful reading experience.
Your article; Dancing with Professors: The Trouble with Academic Pose was assigned in my English 111 class. I began reading your article as any other regular old reading, but soon I became engrossed with it. Not only was your article well written but the underline meanings behind it snagged my attention. Your article reinforces the basis of the difficulty to assimilate professors' academic pose by adding the idea of giving the students a chance to find their voice. Students should be encouraged to find their own voice in order to strive for success within academia. If students don’t find their own academic voice they will continuously follow blindly and merely inmate their proffers’.
College professors are hiding in their own entanglement of words with no clarification in their responses. You criticized college professors for their shy, timid and even fearfulness ways of writing with “dull, difficult pose.” In doing so you have stood up for all struggling college students, this clearly shows in your quote, “when professors undertake to appraise and improve students writing, the blind are leading the blind.” And just how are we as students, to have a strong academic voice when it is to be all jumbled with useless jargon. We are not learning to think but rather shielding our true options in mimicking our professors’ voices. Berry Alford wrote Freirean Voices, Student Choices to encourage students to use their “student voices.” In order to do so they have to “earn their way into a meaningful academic voice instead of merely learn how to imitate one.”
If we as students continue to mimic other’s dull voices this academic jargon pelage will continue. I feel a grave need to help the college professors first before they can help the students. I feel now with this information I can attempt to break the ongoing cycle and let lose my creative student voice. I will respectfully challenge my professors to look at the way they write, and how they can improve as writers with strong voices. Thank you for a wonderful reading experience.