Gilmore Ch 1 and 2

The first chapter just blew me away. I think it was mostly because he didn't write like Christensen and Jago at all, in a professional tone. While Gilmore definelty writes like he knows a lot about teaching, its not in the same way as Christensen and Jago. I tend to skip over a lot of adjetives and other kinda useless words to me that don't exactly point out the... well point. It seems that in Christensen and Jago, I was doing just that: skipping over a lot of stuff, not meaning to of course, but it wa sbecause it was how it was written. Gilmore does have useless words also, but he writes very similar to me. An english teacher here once said that I write "chatty", and I think thats exactly what I do. I write like I talk. While I have gotten a lot better about doing this, I still try to write as I talk, maybe using the words thesauris a lot more though.

I really liked how many of his sentences were in bold. Most of them were really great quotes about revising and teaching, and very to the point such as "The writing teacher's job, ultimatetly, is not to revise for students but to teach students how to revise for themselves." Plain and simple. I also liked his goals for students, they were simple, yet very important in all writing.

In chapter 2 I really loves his upside down triangle, or as he calls it a ice cream cone or an alien head/ the revision cone. I feel like I could actualy use this in my apporach to teaching and if I did show this to my students, I think that they would understand more what to focus on when revising.