Please feel free to give me the feedback I need, I was not able to work on an outline because I was out of town in a family meeting therfore I need a better understanding of putting together my ideas. I look forward to your comments and conferences. Thanks
Engl 298 B
Ishmael Coronado
MP 3 Rough Draft
December 5, 2011
Threshold Concepts
For this paper, I will write about the transformative threshold concept on the discipline of college writing. Meaning that once you understand the potential effect, it relies on student behavior and learning to shift in the perception of a subject. This means that it is difficult when writing about different political views of authors when you have your own. In a sense I will be demonstrating the threshold that was really difficult for me thru this quarter, by using the article of Jan Meyer and Ray Land and Emma Goldman on Anarchism.
The definition of the college writing is troublesome knowledge because it is a new way of writing and engaging the text into more depth that what was taught in high school. It can be difficult coming from different areas of learning, customs and strategies that are brought with you as you graduate from high school. As you start writing you are introduced and assigned to understand the concepts of different authors and critical thinkers. Some of which you can relate, others which you find that their ways of belief are out of this world. When we were assigned to read Anarchism: “what it really stands for” by Emma Goldman, her aspect and point of view of the government was really different than what I had. First and foremost, I could never imagine a society without government; it was even more challenging to grasp the claim “Government, the dominion of the human conduct, represent the stronghold of man’s enslavement and all the horrors it entails.” (Goldman 18). I couldn’t understand it at first, because I was born in a democratic society that has always lived by the government. At times I would ask myself how I could write in her perspective, if I don’t know how her world looked like. This came with difficulty in the first major paper where we had to create a discussion between Socrates who abided by the law because of tacit consent, and Goldman who believed in individualism and self-government. I really couldn’t find the way, because what I believed she would say was not the evidence in the text. The aspect of her philosophy that was easy to grasp was the fact that anarchism brought man to the consciousness of himself, in a sense I do agree that we should always worry about our wellbeing, but toward the law I couldn’t see myself living without government.
In effect, the question really was had these authors and their political ideas changed in my perspective? It may had changed the way I looked at certain subjects but what t most affected me on was knew knowledge and ideas on the political issues. At first I was very spectacle of reading all these complicated authors but then analyzed the way they think. I also try to see how their surroundings might have affected them in having that certain criticism.
In conclusion, this threshold concept of transformative
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