In college, I took a class in Technical Writing that would forever change my approach to creative projects. In the class, my professor, let’s call her CP, used a unique approach to help us learn the core course concepts. Of course she’d explain the concepts in full and we’d discuss them. But rather than show us stellar examples from various works, CP utilized a technique she referred to as “Teaching off the Awful.” By studying various creative technical writing pieces that completely failed to execute on a core concept, we were solidifying our understanding of the idea at hand while simultaneously ensuring we would never make similar mistakes. It was genius!
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