One of the more interesting views from this book is that instead of being told what to think and how we, as students, should look at a particular article, poem, etc. is that the point of the book is to guide us to learn to think for ourselves and form our own opinions about any material in front of us. Further more, the authors would like to teach their readers how to present the information they know, have found or learned and their opinions in a meaningful and constructive way. In addition, the book assumes that we students, as readers, have knowledge in the subject being perused and that we have the ability to interpret and formulate our own opinions and conclusions of the subject by ourselves, without needing a teacher spouting information and facts and answers to us.
I think that, as a marine chemistry student, this is a very interesting and refreshing point of view for an English class, as most of the classes I have taken in high school focus more on answers about works than how to break down what we are looking at or reading to formulate our own opinion.
Also, I think the view the book takes on humanities being too focused on past works in stead of looking at new pieces is very interesting, as no English or writing class I have had has expressed the view that the class is stuck in the past with old English novels and poems from the 19th century being analysed as opposed to recent novels and essays, no matter how much the class complained about reading Great Expectations instead of a relevant or more recent work.
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