Monday, March 21, 2016

Turning off my biases

From 12 Readers Reading

While reading Donna's persuasive essay on prayer  in schools, I found that my hyper-liberal, progressive critic emerged and pushed the composition instructor to the margins.  Besides the errors in writing, she was just flat out wrong in so many of her points. If she was my student, I can see how it would be challenging to conference with her and leave my  personal bias out of the conversation. I also wondered: if the essay mirrored my beliefs, biases and prejudices, would I be as diligent in finding errors in arguments.

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