Blog 12
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
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…
Blog 10
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
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…
Blog 8
Blog #8: (200-300 words) Julie Beck covers a lot of ground as she explores narrative’s potentially powerful influence on our lives. Identify at least three notable assertions or other moments in Beck’s text that caused you to sit up straighter and take note. Explain what exactly caught your eye. Did you react as a believer or doubter? Did you build a connection between the text and the world or the text and your self? Julie Beck covers an interesting topic…
Blog 7
Blog# 7: List 4 areas from the rubric that provide you with the greatest learning opportunity. Feel free to include areas that confuse or confound you. Spend a few sentences elaborating on each choice. #1- The first area from the rubric is the “conversation.” The conversation is a bit harder for me to nail down then other things. It is hard for me to tie everything together and engage the texts and use enough quotes in the correct places. #2-…
Blog 6
Part 1: After reading Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” (est. time: 15 minutes), take a minute to compare and contrast your own first draft (and the experience of writing it) with Lamott’s descriptions. What did you notice? Did anything surprise you about this short essay? Did anything offend you? (100-150 words) (est. time: 20 minutes) Part 2: At the bottom of your post, please type/include your REVISION PLAN STRATEGY (est. time 40 minutes) Part 1: After reading Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts,” I…
Peer annotations
Overall the text was organized. You made sure to add the topic of mental health in right away and introduced the writers that we talked about. I noticed that you could add in some more “they say” “I say” statements if you wanted to go in that direction. In the second paragraph you could spit it up into two separate paragraphs and tack on some more information to the second half, maybe use a writing example from the They Say…
Blog 5
James Geary says that metaphor lives a secret life all around us, I say I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, metaphors are woven into our everyday lives and many people don’t realize it. On the other hand, I still insist that metaphors are not hidden enough to be called a secret. Michael Erard and Dhruv Khullar would probably agree with Geary. They would also say that when a metaphor is apt, people are more likely to…
