week 6 dq response Vanessa Nash

What I am pointing out is that we can either build our lives work brick by brick (word by word) haphazardly or we can build it with intent regarding being an intended building. Focusing on the eventual size and shape of the building.

Is our building/library going to be just a huge shack with dozens of rooms built with “whatever” supplies are handy at the time and with no real engineering or architectural idea in mind. Or can we build our library with intent.

We build our library with every single word we write, every single word we assign students to write. This is not a philosophy question; this is what type of mark on academics and science will we eventually build.

We build our library by doing the work, but the work is not just 3 to 6 dq posts in general discussion and a paper every week. Or two dq posts x 3-6 follow up posts, with or without an additional paper. Each word in that sequence we do as students and each word we assign our future students as classmates. These are not philosophy concepts; these are the facts of being a person of letters. Right now, to be in a PhD class each of us is a person with the letters of either BS or BA after our name. T Robert Welling BS; that is simply a fact. The facts that we need to write about 100k words in the next couple of years is also not an in-dispute fact. Being able to take a larger picture of intent behind our library starts with shaping the words we write, letter by letter, and the words we assign our future students. I am pointing out; those things are all facts. Those facts must be paid attention to. Do we want a 20-room shack, built haphazardly or do we want to put intent behind the building/library we write and assign.