Throughout my whole life, I was taught that essays can only be written through a systematic approach; where there was a formula to writing an essay and not just to solving math problems. The idea of free flow writing was never encouraged by my teachers and in fact, one teacher actually told me that creative writing is not recommended for essays. It was a simple introduction, body with quotes, and conclusion model to write an essay. It was something of simplicity and succinctness where it almost felt like when I was writing I was confined to a small box of ideas. It was never enforced by the school system to actually widen one's perspective while writing.
However, this hole in the teachings of writing is filled through the NHR's vision of writing. The author states, "...the current generation of college students and teachers needs to reinvent the university itself, not by replacing one department with another, but by forging broad connections across areas of knowledge that still remain in relative isolation" (Miller, Spellmeyer xxii). Essentially, the method which is taught through the NHR emphasizes the importance of developing coherence between different topics and subjects while looking into the retrospective and prospective of the issue being argued about. For example, when writing about politics, one can correlate the political argument to a painting relating to that issue. Hence, this will allow different circles of studies in the world to become one Venn diagram of connections allowing the writer to expand his horizons for a certain topic. The NHR approach on writing pushes the ideas of creative writing and broadened thinking. It allows the writer to ask the question for "why" a certain topic the way it is, rather than "how" (Miller, Spellmeyer xxii). The technique of writing taught by NHR pushes wide-range thinking rather than the bland, small-minded thinking taught in the school system.
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