Blog Post : A Lab Rat in a Maze. A Student in This Class

The analogy is pretty spot-on. What we are being taught in this class is unlike any other class I’ve ever experienced. We are little rats in this maze where the ultimate goal or “cheese” is the ability to write dynamically. The beginning is the entrance to writing and we start learning basic concepts of writing structure, design, rhetoric and research. These are simple directions left, right, forward and backward to navigate yourself through the maze. Then the professor gives you the ability to go at your own accord. So you wander the maze taking turns, retracing, restarting, relearning and it’ll take a long time to get to your goal. Then, you have reached it, the goal. Your journey is over. Then a voice appears above, “You have only found the first piece of cheese. Now go find the others.” So you turn your head into another direction and begin your journey again.  Tough but certainly rewarding.

 

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