The Importance of Being Interested

An essay written for Another Word, the blog of the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin.

The Importance of Being Interested, in Another Word from the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 9, 2013.

In this essay, I reflect on the pedagogical power of open-ended curiosity, or being interested, through my one-on-one work with undergraduates and graduate students in the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin.