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You never heard of sentence structure?

Stanley Fish wrote an article called What Should Colleges Teach? (Part 3). In this article Stanley talked about sentence structure. Stanley thinks that sentence structure is very important, actually probably the most important aspect that should be taught in college. He also said “What is a sentence anyway? My answer has two parts: (1) A sentence is an organization of items in the world. (2) A sentence is a structure of logical relationships.” He believes a sentence, or sentence structure is an important part of how the world works or even operates. Students need to know the importance of this before anything actually so they will be excellent students in college.
                                                                                                                                                                   I currently attend The Ohio State University Newark campus and I am finishing up my 1109 English class, Instructed by Derek Boczkowski. He had been teaching us throughout the semester how to be a good college writer. In order to do so he gave us a research paper, the paper was called ARE and we had to write about “What is the most important aspect of college writing?” Many of my classmates followed he instructions and found a specific aspect to write their paper on for example: procrastination, summarizing, quoting, and others. I however took a different path.

                                                                                                                                      

I took a different path

I chose to see my research in a different way. I guess I did not chose to see it in a different way, it just happened that way. Let me explain, we all had to conduct surveys to help with our research and when I did mine I saw something that stood out to me, from that point on I knew that’s what I had to write about. Here’s my survey, tell me what you would have chosen to write about before I explain what I found interesting. So when I got these results I saw that on my last question I asked something like what is the most important aspect of writing for college to you. Their responses is what cause me to write my paper originally on confidence. They all responded to that question so confidently as though they knew their aspect was correct, but yet they all had different aspects so how could they all be right? 

What if i told you there was no right answer?

 So I began to write about confidence as my ARE paper. However I would maybe have two paragraphs and I was stuck after that. I didn’t know how to finish it, it was like I knew what I wanted to say but something just wasn’t fitting.

 Luckily for me my professor had mandatory conferences, where we had to go and talk about where we are with our papers. In that meeting we talked and he was able to help me figure out what I had been wanting to convey through my paper the whole time. I really wanted to write about practices but in the beginning I thought practices could equal to confidence and that’s why I was stuck. I finally was able to get past my two paragraphs and write a full paper on practices.

Practice makes permanent

Here’s my paper, and here are a few examples of the practices I wrote about: (1) Finding your strengths and weaknesses (2) Seeking help (3) Seeing writing in everyday things. For me a college student the first two really helped me I was able to see my strength was seeing things in a different way but my weakness was not being able to put it to paper and that I thought I would be able to do it on my own. Then seeking help, helped me because if I never had help my paper would be completely different and would never have turned out the way it did. I would have a completely different topic and I would not have anything interesting to say.

 So I agree with Stanley I think sentence structure is important, however I would add that without practices, college students would be lost because I know I was. I am now a person who asks for help and gets better grades. I think every student needs to know this going into college in order to feel less helpless. Hope this was helpful.

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