Lost in translation: why schools should teach what

What makes up a good paper? A question we have probably all asked ourselves some time before. No doubt as a child, or perhaps college student, rushing to finish a paper that was put off for far too long. Well as Mr. Fish sees it, the path to success is build brick by brick, or sentence by sentence in this case. As he discusses in his article “What Should Colleges Teach? Part 3” as found Here, “You have to start with a simple but deep understanding of the game, which for my purposes is the game of writing sentences (Stanley Fish).

This notion Mr. Fish makes about focusing on our knowledge of sentences is a very interesting way to structure his college courses. All though we need to consider why are sentences all that important?Let's us bring to mind to question of “why sentences are even important?” To answer this we are going to be required to acknowledge the whole grand scheme of writing in the first place. It’s an unspoken goal that I have uncovered that I came across while performing observations at the Ohio State Writer’s Studio in preparation for my thesis on an English paper of mine.
 
We were required to convey a “Key aspect of College Writing” utilizing what we observed. So I watched a student and tutor duo discussed over the students work for eight weeks to find any topic they mentioned I could use.  This is where I say that the whole point we even write in the first place is to portray our thoughts to others, and I say the steps we must take to accurately accomplish that goal.
 

If written properly your paper can make the reader feel part of the action

One of these goals is how we can write our sentences. It’s like how Fish puts it in his article, “You are not going to change the world if you are not equipped with the tools to speak to a present condition (Stanley Fish).” So how do we consider sentences? Well first let’s consider language, for paper comprised solely of short, easy words you picked up back in elementary school then you will rub off as juvenile, although your word scheme can have the tendency of acting as a double-edge sword. Since even though simple words make you look childish, if you use a thesaurus to look up every other word for your paper then your final result will look obnoxious.
 
So the way you write your sentences makes a big difference to your audience, as does the actual way you form your sentences, because teachers like to bring the gabble down every time a sentence ran longer than a line people got it in their head to write nothing but short uniform sentences, though if we were to think about it this would just result in a very bland and sterile paper.
 

Short, simple, boring!

Plus as fish puts it in the paper, “Asking a student to turn a three word sentence like “Jane likes cake” into a 100-word sentence without losing control of the basic structure”. So in reality a long sentence can be possible, if done correctly.
 
So as you can see sentences are very important, as they are what we use to negotiate with our readers on a certain topic. Therefore without a strong grasp over how you write then your message becomes gargled. So yes being required to relearn what was already taught to you may not initially sound fun, but without a good base how can you possibly build on. Not to mention that even though you maybe repeating something, that doesn’t mean everyone is. You don’t know what was and wasn’t taught to someone else there in class with you,  and Mr. Fish understands this. That’s why he starts with the baby steps onward. Therefore we need to ask the same question from before, “Why are sentences important?” Because if we are still having trouble answer this then perhaps you should consider see one of Mr. Fish's lectures.