{"id":1685,"date":"2016-02-28T20:10:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T03:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2016-02-29T19:45:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T02:45:35","slug":"the-want-to-part-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"The Want-to Part of Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150111.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1686\" \/><\/a>I help students with the want-to part of writing. It\u2019s not something I learned in school.<\/p>\n<p>Schools focus on the have-to\u2019s. You have to take this class to graduate. You have to fill X number of pages to make an A on your paper.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, motivating with \u201chave-to\u2019s\u201d is not bad. We all do things every day (show up to work, visit the dentist, pay taxes) because we have to.<\/p>\n<p>Have-to\u2019s work; they just don\u2019t work completely; they don\u2019t work best.<\/p>\n<p>A student who has to write will turn in his essay on time. A student who wants to write will finish it early, leaving time for multiple revisions so the composition will be not only good, but very good.<\/p>\n<p>A student who has to improve her grammar will make the required trip to a writing tutor. A student who wants to write more effectively will visit a tutor multiple times, maybe even purchase a handbook at her own expense, so poor grammar will not get in the way of her clarity.<\/p>\n<p>You get the drift. One who has to write does what he has to. One who wants to write does more than she has to.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you get students to want-to? Tomorrow\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I help students with the want-to part of writing. It\u2019s not something I learned in school. Schools focus on the have-to\u2019s. You have to take this class to graduate. You have to fill X number of pages to make an A on your paper. Of course, motivating with \u201chave-to\u2019s\u201d is not bad. We all do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}