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Voice of Wisdom
(Adaptability is another strong quality our students have.)
without notifying them. The midterms are returned as
OneofmyfavoriteclassesisArticleReadingandWriting,
promptly as possible with revisions to make, and then the
students are obliged to find any newspaper or magazine or
whichIhavespunintoeditorialreadingandwriting,chosen
atfirstbecauseitwasaspecificgenre.Anormalclassstarts
website to get published in (basically anything above the
withsomekookytwotothree-minutevideofromYouTube,
qualityofablog.)
suchasRubeGoldbergcontraptions,timelapsevideos,stop
A few weeks ago, Alexandra arrived to class with a real
motionvideos,opticalillusionvideos,orwhatever(soasto
spring in her step. “They accepted it! They’re going to
allowthelatestudentstostragglein,formetoorganizemy
publishit,”apieceonthegroupAZIATIX(don’tworry,I’d
notes,andforthestudentstoseesomethingfun.)
never heard of them either) that was being published in an
For the editorial class, the basic routine is often similar:
American-basedpublicationcalledksoulmag.com
alittlebitofprofessortimeatthebeginning,thenstudents
InarecentMediaEnglishclassregardingJohnKennedy’s
workingonthetasksgiventothem.Igivethecontext,pre-
inaugural speech, I prepared an overly long power point
(ppt)presentation.Forthefirsttimethisyearastudentwas
teach vocabulary, or provide whatever is needed. We do
different types of shared reading, various tasks divided,
having trouble staying awake, her eyelids closing and her
headnoddingdown.Shewasfightingit,butitwasalosing
anythingtokeepawayfromahabitualformuladeveloping
over the semester. It’s also essential that the tasks students
battle. Offended? Not in the least. Worried? Concerned?
are given are understood and achievable. “Sir, I’m not
Yes. Sleeping students = ‘shut up professor Gavin.’ I have
sure what we’re supposed to do,” means I screwed up the
a low tolerance for cell phone use in class (at least for the
instructions. But if successful, I float around the class and
lecture part), but sleeping is never a problem. If a student
help various groups. Students with editorials that have few
is sleeping in class it’s my fault: me boring, unengaging;
markings or notes get my attention. “A messy paper is a
andthestudentspassive,notevenneedingtotakenotesas
goodpaper.Arrowsaregood.Circlesaregood.Underlining
the ppt will be uploaded to e-class at the end of the day.
is good. Comments are great!” Just mere translations of
Normallyinmyclassesstudentsareengagedintaskswith
difficult vocabulary does not reflect real engagement with
eachother.
thetext.
As ‘global citizens,’ HUFS students ought to actively
In each class students study one model editorial, usually
contribute in order to earn this moniker. For my class,
fromacurrentevent(whatfunwehadthesemesterGadhafi
they do this by writing editorials and opinion pieces for
wasoverthrown!).Theirpurposeis,ofcourse,tounderstand
Korean and international newspapers. Over the semesters,
theeditorial,butalsotolookforattributestheycanborrow
we’vebeenluckytohavestudentsbepublishedindomestic
fortheirowneditorials(themidtermandfinal).“Editorials
English newspapers, as well as North American, English
are a different genre. They have a style different from the
European and Australian newspapers. The highlight of
academicwritingyou’reusedto.Haveyoueverseenaone
every semester is a guest speaker, a real editorial writer.
sentenceparagraphbefore?Wheredoyousensesarcasmin
Regular contributors to the Korea Times Andrew Salmon
the editorial? What judgments is the writer making? How
and Donald Kirk regularly visit, much to the thrill of the
are they made stronger or weaker? How objective is the
students.
writer? Again, editorials are a different genre. You have
Teaching editorial writing is inspiring and rewarding.
more freedom. You need to say something profound and
Students are intellectually engaged in meeting the world,
inastylethatreflectsyouandtheeditorialswe’vestudied.
by participating in the discourse that is the international
Someone once said, ‘The Beatles stole brilliantly.’ That’s
EditorialandOpinionpages.It’struethatwecansay,‘Come
what we’re doing: looking for characteristics and traits to
toHUFS,MeettheWorld,’butourstudentscanalsogoout
use in our own writing.” (I, too, am thrown in the mix of
tomeettheworldandhavetheirvoicesheardonimportant
topicsandsignificantmatters.
gettingpublishedeachsemester.)
This paradigm shift provides significant and meaningful
learning,particularlyfromtheresearchrequiredtosupport
their claims. However, what’s particularly unique is that
there is a continuous push by me for the student to get
published!“Pickacountryyouknowandwriteaneditorial
for a newspaper in that country.” This has been no small
task. We’ve discovered that newspaper editors don’t reply
toemails,andwillpublish(andedit)thestudents’editorials
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