Write something you would want to read. This is basically the idea of this video. This video is one of a series called "The Writing Workshop". The professor teaching the class, and essentially all of the videos viewers show us that our writing does not always reflect our best work. The professor uses the example of a Friday afternoon, where students are ready for the weekend and are not really paying attention to the assignment the teacher is having them do for the weekend.

The professor states that the students did not really even know what the assignment was or what they were supposed to write about. All the students knew was that they needed to write a 500 word essay. We see that the students chose to write about things that held very little importance and proceeded to fill up the rest of the paper with charts and graphs.

Personally, 500 words is not very much to write, but it is still hard to write about something if you are just not interested in it. This is what I am trying to figure out. How do we get the students we are having write, get interested in what they are writing about? I am going to research more on how to get students interested in their writing.

This may not be exactly what I am going to be writing my final paper on, but there are some very good things in this video to discuss further. To begin, this video based itself on the idea of how to write a research paper. There is a professor and he basically lays out the law of how to write a common college research paper.

Now, in this video, there are a lot of good qualities but, it makes us think as future teachers... Is this how students should be taught?

My first issue is that the professor is establishing that there are only 3 different types of college research papers/. While this may be true, there needs to be a boundry that can be crossed to keep students engaged in their writing. This is the problem in my workshop. We see students with research papers that just are plain, not interesting.

The key goal... get students to be passionate about their writing.