A Class which changed the way I look at technical writing classes

In fact I am not going to talk about the class but the teacher, a teacher who inspired and completely changed the way I look at technical writing classes.

I am a thinker and I think a lot, and I have always liked writing but the last few courses I attended kind of killed my interest in writing and made me think that the idea of writing my thoughts and ideas on a piece of paper is a bad idea, Those classes were either too boring or just taught some rules and regulations of writing which I forget as soon as the course finishes, But this class was different it didn't taught us how to write rather it made us think.

The class started with an objective to make us learn the three basic principles of writing but in a very interesting way , the teacher didn't gave us any definition but still he made us learn by making us think , write and discuss.

The first thing we did in the class was that the teacher made us review the articles we had written in the last class and then told us to examine the article of our neighbors which made us realize not theirs but our own mistakes. And then the teacher taught us the 1^st principle of writing which is that one should have a clear objective before starting to write an article and the 2^nd principle that we should know the audience and should write from the reader’s perspective, After that we had an open ended discussion about the things we had learned so far, form that discussion we learned how to start the article and the 3^rd principle of writing which is to be conclusive and to know what do you want to tell the reader or what message you want to convey.

During the class we had a talk about Pakistanis their mind set and how their mind set is being changed, during that talk the teacher used a technique called “The Drill down Approach” which is a tool to analyze the whole situation in different conditions and situations, he actually taught by showing us how it’s done     

We ended the class with the teacher giving us an assignment to write an article about the class and to posting it on this blog, I personally had very good experience in that class and I think all my class mates liked the class

What a wonderful class it was. I think this class should be video recorded and made available for the students who don’t get such teachers and for the teachers to learn and inspire