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 * My Best Free-Writing Experience**

My best writing experience(s) occurred while I was taking Dr. Bob Whitney's Grammars of English Class. Dr. Whitney's free writing prompts were provocative and stimulating. Our class was obliged to discover paradoxes in education. We were expected to actively "conversate" with our writing. Dr. Whitney used controversial articles about education to further supplement our inquiries and discoveries. Once our class discovered a fallicy in the system, Dr. Whitney "encouraged" us to delve into the problem and to ask deeper, more meaningful questions.

Dr. Whitney disallowed regurgitation and mindless responses. If we disagreed with a specific statement, we were obliged to explain our frustration. Dr. Whitney welcomed and embraced confusion, anger and uncertainty. This free writing process was the opposite of what I was taught. In high school, I wrote mindlessly and mechanically. My resposes to each writing prompt were confined and "unanalytical". I was apprehensive towards formulating my own opinions. I succeeded in education when I regurgitated the information back to the teacher.

In Dr. Whitney's class, I experienced the "free" in "freewriting". I was able to develop my writing, without the constraints of a grade. Dr. Whitney has improved my ability to write and to think conceptually and analytically. Posted just now