Wednesday, January 20, 2010

1-20-09

Notes for 1-20-10

1. Blog warm-up

Instructions: sign in to your blog. Take one of the items for your “Ten things about me and gender” list, and make that item the title of a new post. Now, take that item and flesh it out—write 300 words explaining this statement, going into more detail, or free associating. Post it.

2. Enjoy your RAIDS

RAIDS is an acronym for Revision, Arrangement, Invention, Delivery and Style.

These are five categories of analysis we are going to look at in the readings we are doing for this class.

These five categories also apply to our own writing.

Invention:
Where do ideas come from? How do you get ideas for writing?
Where and how did the author get the ideas for this piece?
What in this piece is something that the author invented, or created, through writing?

Arrangement:
How can writing create order in the world?
What are the component parts of this piece? How are they put together?
Where do you see the author comparing or juxtaposing? Where do you see relationships?


Revision:
How can writing change the world? How can writing change your mind?
How is the author trying to change his audience’s mind about something through this piece?
Where do you see the author revising the way the world sees his subject?


Style:
How does writing create a unique sound and voice?
What is the author’s tone?
What stylistic choices is the author making?

Delivery:
Where does writing exist? How does it reach an audience?
Where was this published? Why is that important or significant?

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

15 things about me

1. I love teaching writing. It's the best job I've ever had, although most of those other jobs included gross tasks and grumpy old people so maybe it's a bad comparison.
2. I live in Lansing, not East Lansing, and I love my neighborhood, the Eastside.
3. My girlfriend is really creative and makes stuffed animals, and I have a bunch of things she's made for me in my office, including a stuffed muffin, and a scrabble rabbit.
4. I play World of Warcraft and my character is a Draenei hunter.
5. My dad collects rare coins and rare books about rare coins and one time I interlibrary loaned a book for him that was worth $10,000. I know, right?
6. I realized this summer that I really love romance novels. I can't believe it took me this long.
7. I am REALLY good at Scrabble.
8. I was captain of the Quiz Bowl team in high school and I still fantasize about being on Jeopardy.
9. My nickname is Wikipedia Brown because I know so many random things.
10. I drive a blue 2003 pontiac vibe and it's the only car I've ever had. I love it and I am scared for the day when it stops working...
11. My favorite superheroes are Oracle (who used to be batgirl) and Black Canary.
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