Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Be like Wilbur!!!


Here's your chance to win an apple or a banana or some good snack swiped early in the morning from one of my boys' packed lunches:

Listen to this NPR profile of billionaire Wilbur Ross and find out what he says about the process of writing. (NOTE: There's an article, too, but to learn the answer, you have to listen to the interview.

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What does Wilbur say about the process of writing? What does it force him to do?

Post your answers here and the first person from each class to reply takes food out of my sons' mouths!!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What does Wilbur say about the process of writing?

The process of writing for Wilbur especially writing in that limited space of a 1,000 words everyday in College English class cause a person "to organize their thought process" and "questions" as well as "think through what your observations were". It is a good discipline for analytical activity.

What does it force him to do?
This forces him to think analytically; Wilbur takes companies that are failing and sales them to bigger companies, but in order to do that he has to see things that other people do not see. He has to see why the company is failing and what is the cause and concepts for that company to have that failure.

Anonymous said...

he stressed writing helping you to become more analytical in your everyday thought processes. To me i guess that means that being very meticulous in your writing will help you be meticulous in other things, for him saving businesses, which has nothing to do with writing.