Gilmore Chapter 2

Even though I love writing, starting essay sucks for me. I have such a hard time just trying to figure out what I"m going to say and how right it is going to be. So yes, I am that students that can't start an essay until I figure out that its good enough in my mind to be good enough on the paper. Some teachers say just write, but that hard when you have nothing to go by. Since I have to start with the introduction and make a wonderful thesis, it becomes hard for me to get pass this point because I have been told for so long that this is the most important part. When Gilmore is explaining this part, I wasn't sure if he was saying that we as teachers should not make it the most important part in a students essay or if he was saying that it was an essential part, but it wasn't the most important part.

Well I disagree either way. I understand that the introduction and the thesis has to be eye catching in order for to give the reader an idea of what is going on in the essay, but some teachers stop reading after that point. They stop caring what the content is because the "thesis" wasn't good. I think that is crap. For so long we as students have been told that this is the most important part and it is when taking certain test. So how do we teach our student to get a way from that, like myself, who can't get past the first paragraph because my thesis isn't concrete? I wish we there was a way to teach our students to start in the middle and then work on the introduction, but that isn't possible because we have been brainwashed for so long. I like that Gilmore gives strategies for these things, but I'm just not sure how well I can relate to him.....