Blog post #18: Begin your paper. You can have a brainstorm session: Choose your favorite brainstorming activity (“follow the thread,” clustering, columns, or free write) to help you decide on an angle you want to take when drafting this next paper. Please post evidence of this brainstorming activity into your post. You can begin to draft: If you have already decided what angle you want to argue, feel free to make an outline, including a tentative thesis statement and 3-4 strong claim…
I see the world through my phone, along with everyone else in my generation. This is unchangeable, and though that is the case, it is not necessarily a great thing. Nancy Jo Sales wrote an article called “Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse.” In this article, Sales begins to describe a scene of young adults in a bar, on tinder. It is ironic because all of the groups at the bar are not taking a break to look…
Blog #16: Try writing your own naysayer paragraph. Try to write your paragraph so that you can include it in your free draft. In Yo-yo Ma and Jonah Lehrer’s writing, they pull the reader in to understand and realize what they are saying. Their ideas begin to combine into one big idea. They say that science is missing art, and this is a thought that I agree with. Science is a fantastic way to discover new ideas about the world,…
Don’t forget to fill out your Favorite Strategies Sheet Print, Read, and Annotate Jonah Lehrer’s “The Future of Science…Is Art?” Jonah Lehrer Blog #15 Practice with Paragraphs Please upload an image of 3-5 pages of annotations. Write two paragraphs–one Barclay and one TREAC. Your Barclay can pair Lehrer with Yo-Yo Ma or it can pair Lehrer with a self-to-text, world-to-text “illustration.” Barclay: The pieces of writing by Yo-Yo Ma and Lehrer share similar thoughts about arts involved in science. Yo-Yo…
Print, read, and annotate “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education” By Yo-Yo Ma (Please bring to class on Thursday) Blog # 14 STEP 1) Please upload at least 3-5 pages of your annotations to your Blog and briefly reflect on how you feel you are achieving your annotation goals. (15-25 words) STEP 2) Revisit your notes on active reading and understanding context and do your best to describe each of the three contexts we’ve discussed in class. 1) What is the surrounding context for…
Blog #12: Revision Strategy. I would like you to take some minutes and reflect on your peer review experience. Return to your peer’s notes. Flip through your own. Now is the time to develop a strategy. Your strategy is the plan of action you will take to achieve your overall aim (Dictionary.com). Your strategy should include: Revisit the grading rubric as well as my notes on your last paper. What new skills are you working to incorporate into your new paper? What are your revision…
Blog # 11: Revisit the Barclay Paragraph: Write a Barclay paragraph that connects a quote from one Narrative Project with one of our assigned essays. In one of the narrative project (by Sophie Horton), she interviewed a man who describes a story that has helped him learn not to judge people. The man he talked about was very lame and messy. He said that the man in the story “ended up suffocating his wife to death because of how much he…
Write Blog #10 (200-400 words) comparing your second reading experience with your first. Did you notice something new? Did you react differently to one of the author’s claims? Did you read something critically when, at first, you read it as a believer or vice versa? Continue to “clear the fog.” Look up at least two more terms or references that you don’t know. I reread “I am not a story” by Galen Strawson. The first time I read this piece…
Blog #9: Set a timer for 15 minutes and free write your response to Galen’s argument. Note specific moments in his essay as you respond. Some things to consider: Have you ever felt impeded by your “life story?” If so, how? Do you feel like it’s truthful or possible to perceive your self as a singular self or can you relate when Galen talks about possessing many selves? I am not sure what my life story is, it’s so hard…
