Why Fish Follows "Carp" Diem

As we all know, nothing, even physics is not eternally set in stone; nothing that we know of makes an exception to the universal rule. We all the that the only consistent idea we can truly count on is the idea of change. A professor see's through his many years of both teaching and learning that their job is consistently changing. We cannot find anything concrete, not even our own continents. We find Stanley Fish attempt the impossible in section "What Should Colleges Teach? Part 3" from The New York Times.

Something that seems concrete

In the lime light his main point is that the student should not be held to a standard of the way they speak. Fish believes we cannot stand by and watch this as in the long run will impact their lives. I do agree with him that they should not encourage college students to better them selves and get to a higher form of writing. in this unique writing if they should not encourage college students in this unique writing class. However, I do feel it is important to note that I do not believe should not have an impact on the grade a student receives. A student should be able to learn from their mistakes if they are actually engaged in the class. To be honest I do not think a set high ground should necessarily be set. Creativeness is some what rare theses days and should be rewarded versus the teacher miss understanding and failing the student.

Final Boss similar to putting together your final project.

Another main point Fish makes is about sentence structure; he notes that it is also an important part to understanding a writer. Since schools have failed to teach such basic writing skills as this colleges must then fill the void that has been created. His intentions are to give professors on the limitless range of education they may be required to give a particular incoming class. 

The professors, unfortunately need to teach basics first if the students do not yet have a full grasp on it.Once their education is to the right criteria I believe they should work towards furthering a student writers ability. they may actually even begin to teach during my observations, in the writers studio for my English 1109 class, help ones sentence structure and will allow for the way you speak to ensure you are getting the point across. It could be that prewriting (from what I saw in the writing studio) is the universal objective that that would lead to better overall writing. Through a student's ability to prewrite we can easily address the level that they are currently at. This ability may allow for us to make drastic changes, such that an earthquake does, to go from our own words of prewriting to a more formal understanding version as the final project comes together.

Unfortunately prewriting cannot make-up for everything that primary schools have failed at. Of course nothing, not even prewriting, can ensure that everyone's writing ability will prosper. However, it does nearly guarantee that the flow of the paper will be smooth. As I saw in my observations structure is important to any piece of writing. Fish also makes a note of this in his article but, his is to a much smaller scale. He believes that we need to focus on the structure of sentences rather than what I was pertaining to; the order of sentences and paragraphs as a whole.

World Turning.

So as the light upon our forever moving continent  we see that it is not the only object of the universe that it is consistently changing. though it does seem it is good to have a standard for writing it is also just as important to understand that everyone need not be held to these standards. I believe Fish has some very well addressed thoughts and concerns; however it seems he is not looking from any point of view but his own. So I say we cannot have a universal standard, for every situation in life is different considering individual situations may be different then their piers.This is why Fish I say fish follows Carpe Diem; He and I both agree we must do with what we are given and bring students to a potential that is of common understanding.