The Importance Of Academic Writing And Reading

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There are many roles that one may be forced into while undergoing the path of education, whether one is a teacher or a student. Before diving into the different roles played by both professors and students, it is important to differentiate the differences between different types of work and how that affects how we go about learning. Academic writing and reading involve more than just skimming over the top, it involves diving into the topic even if one does not understand everything. "Interacting with texts might mean, at times, making arguments or drawing conclusions about that text. But sometimes it an also means recognizing the aspects of a text that might be posing unanswerable and complicated questions, questions that invite us to explore or inquire rather than to take a stance"(3). It is important to realize that with academic writing that it is not one person 's view, it is a compilation of many brains and that it does not always have to have answers sometimes it can ask questions. The personal writing is writing from one perspective and only looking at things in one view. When one is writing or reading a piece of personal writing they can "[hang] back and [wait] for a piece, or its author, to tell you what the writing has to say" (1). There is not much interpretation occurring during the digestion of personal writing, so while …show more content…

Freire states that it benefits the “oppressive society” to treat students as “depositories” (216) because the more the students absorb information “the less they develop the critical consciousness [and] the more completely they accept the passive role imposed on them” (217). If the students are forced into a passive role, simply accept what they are told and what is expected of them, society is able to create an environment to their liking, forcing the students into the roles they want

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