"Tutors who never blog are ungenerous, secretive sorts who keep their good ideas to themselves and do not fail to deprive others of the encouragement they might be hopeful of being the beneficiaries of in a community of practice such as that of the WLDC."
Respond. Do you find this claim a little cheeky, or do you find it downright insolent? Do you find the double negatives off-putting? How about the awkward constructions ending with "of"? Can you revise them for clarity? Explain your answers, using your own experience and evidence and examples from the text.
Maybe the tutors weren't trying to keep their ideas to themselves, but trying to get logged in. You have to create a gmail account, then create a login to blog, and then put in your password fifteen different times. It's taken me over half a semester to even get logged in. ;)
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DeleteFirst, a revision for clarity. Tutors who don't respond to blogs are selfish people. They keep knowledge safe from the hands of motivated students, and succeed in discouraging the sharing of information with students who could otherwise find it useful to their learning.
DeleteI found this claim neither cheeky nor insolent, rather an effective invitation to share our knowledge with others who can use it.
Perhaps the reservist motivations of tutors, who do not regularly send their divine mental insights into the blogo'sphere, are less about providing safe harbor for their good ideas, and more about an inner insecurity in which their thoughts and experiences may be useless or articulated poorly and therefore misunderstood. An ever present, self replicating, fear of being judged for misplaced commas and run-on sentences.
Perhaps it is an innate feeling of hypocrisy, spending so much time analyzing and criticizing the writing of others, whilst we spew our own grammatical gobbledygook into the harsh environment of the rabbit hole.
That or we're all just a little more lazy than we like to let on.
"The harsh environment of the rabbit hole"?! The rabbit hole is warm and fuzzy and non-judgmental.
DeletePersonally, I found it a little cheeky.