Criticism in Writing and Emotions

Question: While Caffarella and Barnett (2000) indicate that critique is the most influential element in helping learners produce a better writing product, critique can be an emotional event. Cameron et al. (2009) note that it proved helpful in their workshops to discuss the emotions that emerged as students prepared to critique and be critiqued. What emotions come up for you when you consider someone else reading your work and offering critiques? How do you plan to work through these feelings? Answer: Criticism in writing and emotions If painting is considered as the product of a painter then writing is like a child for a writer. A writer puts his emotion his knowledge and his time for his creation. Through his writing a writer tries to communicate his notion with his readers. It is not a sword but a medium through which he expresses what he thinks as important to be shared. Many people consider writing as a daily escape from their reality to their ideal world. Whereas many consider that writing is the only way to convey truth to the world (Dawson, 2005). What cannot be heard from the voice of a writer can be seen through his writing. To me writing is like a piece of art, the words are like the color and the palette is the knowledge and the writing is just like the expression depicted in a painting. When this formation is presented in front of people, the expectation is that there will be people praising it, supporting it as well as there will be people going against the notion. The fact is people who are more involved with the notion, goes against the notion. When people praises, at that time a feeling approaches that all the efforts all the knowledge was worth it. But when people criticize, the morale gets drowned. A common question instigates whether the people who criticize is qualified enough, but then the same can be asked when someone praises. People who love to write needs to accept criticism, because it is always better to know what is wrong in order to improve the writing skills (Hyland and Hyland, 2001). There is no end for learning similarly criticism is the flicker to learn more. References Dawson, P. (2005).Creative writing and the new humanities. London: Routledge. Hyland, F. and Hyland, K. (2001). Sugaring the pill.Journal of Second Language Writing, 10(3), pp.185-212.