Language and Teaching Book Review by Top Papers

The paper looks at how "Making Meaning on the Page and in Our Lives" explores teaching in terms of it being an art form. The paper explains that artists are able to understand priority, design and quality; successful artistry is not the result of the quantity of the paint or the amount used, but how the artists uses these materials. The paper relates that a writer is someone who "is enormously taken by things anyone else would walk by", according to James Dickey, a quote which demonstrates how art is not a learned form of expression but is something artists derive from life experiences. The paper describes how writers observe the little things in life and turn them into a piece of work that captures our human emotions and powers of observation; writing lives and breathes the author's perspective on life.