Pedagogy?

So I have finished reading our ballpoint writers guide; chapters one and two. I find that I appreciate it. Not only for its thoroughness, but because it made me look up a new word. I had never in my life seen the word pedagogy. Evidently it means the art of teaching or for referring to different modalities and methods in instructing. I always enjoy learning new words. The rest of the chapters I read are pretty well organized, but also have a kind of common sense approach that makes for easy understanding. I also liked that they broke down the beliefs pertaining to different things with words and definitions. Not so much the definition from a dictionary, so much as a definition as to how that word or concept applies to Ball State and our writing classes. When I first heard that I was going to have to read from some dry, boring writing manual, I groaned; literally. Now that I have done my reading I find myself presently surprised. It wasn’t all that dry or too boring.