When I was reading this article the piece on people reading a text and applying it to their own life. This reminded me of quotes most of the time people like quotes, because they can be related to their life. A quote might hold a totally different meaning from person to person, but they can still relate it to their life and make a special meaning out of it.
I really liked the part about including both purposes in writing, literary and discursive. When people are constructing a piece of their own writing if that person only included one or the other the paper wouldn't reach its full potential. I like the way Judith Langer put it, she says "it is the interplay of the two (literary and discursive) that can add richness to the understanding." I definitely agree with this quote. If the literary piece wasn't included in a paper the reader wouldn't get a lot of the detail that could be included as if it were included in the paper.
In one of my management classes we went over inquiry based learning. The teacher would give the students a question and the students would work towards developing questions until the students had a solid grasp on what the possible answer to the question was. The part in the article by Langer about how students sometimes departed from the lesson plan for the day grabbed my attention, because of the inquiry based teaching I just learned about. The teacher in the video that I watched on inquiry based learning had a clear vision for where he wanted to students to go, if the students were straying away from that he would form questions that lead the students back on the right track. That is a way to not loose the point to the lesson, but to inconspicuously lead the students back to the point of the lesson. I don't think when the students react in a way that the teacher didn't expect that the whole lesson should be thrown out the door, but if there is a teachable moment to what that student brought up it wouldn't hurt to investigate that students idea a bit.
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