Advancement is the proliferation of useable variety.
digitaldigs
· 1 month ago
An interesting definition Ted. (and sorry for the comment moderation, I'm getting killed with spam.) If advancement requires proliferation and variety, then we are advancing in myriad directions. I see your point though. To advance as a writer is to become able to make use of writing in a variety of ways. And then "advanced writing" is a course where students are asked to write in various ways? I suppose that would be a generic definition of such courses.
I wonder if advaned writing courses are giving way to more specific technical, professional, creative genres.
Ted Fristrom
· 1 month ago
I'm thinking mostly about how species survive within ever changing ecologies here. The more variety you have, the more likely it is for a species to survive when something changes. But that's precisely what "predictable" situations, "carefully constructed prompts" and "controlled testing" situations fail to produce, let alone measure.
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I wonder if advaned writing courses are giving way to more specific technical, professional, creative genres.