Response To Paulo Friere's Essay 'The American Scholar'

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Dr. Sherrod
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Savannah State University
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Savannah, GA 31404

1 December 2014
Dear Dr. Sherrod:
“Writing is exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.” Throughout my academic career, I have all ways struggled with writing. I have never been a person that could just write. It has took me 19 years to realize every writer has strengths and weakness.
Entering your freshman year English 1101 class, I had the basic fundamentals of writing. I was very strong in following the writing process: 1.Brainstorming, 2.Rough draft, 3.First draft, 4.Final draft. However despite knowing the writing process I still had trouble following through with the writing process.
The struggles I encountered at the beginning of my …show more content…

The essay was a combination of Paulo Friere, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Richard Rodriguez essay. Paulo Friere’s essay, “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education,” is about the banking concept, traditional teaching style vs. problem-posing concept, the non-traditional teaching style. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American Scholar” is on how to become an ideal scholar. Richard Rodriguez’s “The Achievement of Desire.” is describing how a scholarship boy has a difficult time distinguishing between his personal life and the classroom. This paper was very different from the paper I wrote because it was Socratic dialogue with the writers as speakers and education as the topic of dialogue. When I began to write this paper my goal was to create a dialogue between Friere, Emerson, Rodriguez, and I about the outcome of having an education. I also want to use evidence from each author to support the conversation as if it was really the writers discussing the topic. Even though I had read all three of the writers’ essay I had a very difficult time writing this paper because I didn’t know what a Socratic dialogue was. My second problem was that I didn’t really understand Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American Scholar.” My biggest problem was trying to get the dialogue to flow. To fix my problem first I look up the definition and examples of a Socratic dialogue. Next, I had to re-read Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American

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