Extra Credit — blogging — opportunity!
October 27, 2006
Post a blog entry about an event you’ve attended over the weekend (Thursday to Sunday).
Last night I noticed a few of you attending an event with some bands playing, and others were at the first Frequency North reading of the year. If any of you have or plan to attend any type of sanctioned event or gathering over the weekend, you can blog the details and your reflection for extra credit points.
In the future anyone who attends a Frequency North reading and blogs on it will receive extra credit.
Announcement
October 27, 2006
If you prefer to get your reading (for next week) done over the weekend, I have placed a copy of an excerpt (“Class Identity and the Politics of Dissent”) from Julie Lindquist’s book A Place to Stand on reserve at the library.
If not, you can wait until class time to receive your copy.
Extension!
October 24, 2006
I am extending the due dates for the revision of essay #2, which we just finished workshopping/conferencing.
ENG105-31 (MW): revision of essay #2 due Wed., Nov. 8th
ENG105-35 and 36: revision of essay #2 due Thurs., Nov. 9th
You also have readings assigned for this date, so be sure to properly pace yourselves.
Reminder: ENG105 section 31 (MW 2:40 – 4:20)
October 24, 2006
There are still a few copies of “The Achievement of Desire” outside my office door. Please be sure to pick up a copy, if you haven’t already.
RE: Blogging–change in posting time
October 13, 2006
Until now your blog posts have been due by 5pm on their due days. I am changing this to midnight. You now have until midnight on the day that posts are due to get those entries published to your blogs. For Tues/Thurs sections this means that you have until midnight every Tuesday and Thursday, and for Mon/Wed sections you have until midnight on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Please also remember that you can post in advance. You don’t have to publish your entry on the day it is due–simply by the day/time it is due.
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Essay #2 Assignment
October 3, 2006
Paper #2: Portrait of a person: Writing about “someone else”
3-5 pp.
(Examples: Brothers and Keepers, A Place to Stand (by Julie Lindquist), Nickel and Dimed)
Various approaches include: a profile, an interview, a story of your interactions/relationship, or a retelling of the other person’s experience(s) through your words (and, potentially, her/his own).
Keep in mind the difficulty involved in maintaining accuracy in your depictions of others. These are your fallible human perceptions of another human being. Try to recapture the power of lived experience and/or the power of the human spirit/personality through the language that you choose to use. For many writers this means slowing down the narration of the piece so that the reader can vicariously experience this person s/he doesn’t know. Remember the subject at hand should be meaningful, prompting you to think about yourself, the person you are writing about, and the place you each hold in the world. How have the experiences and contexts of this person’s life affected who s/he is? The essay should explore, in a sustained way, the culture, influences, values, experiences, etc. that make this person who s/he is. This piece might also capture the influence this person has had upon you, but that should not be the center of the piece (refer to the texts we’ve read in class for an illustration of this).
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