#teachingfortransfer

In honor of the last week (and two days) of the quarter ... the final countdown!

:-)

The last two (and half) weeks of the quarter are upon us! They will fly by in a blur of due dates and stress. How do you want to finish up the quarter? What do you need to do to be successful? To survive? Well, Britney might have the answer ... you better work b**ch! :-) 

Don’t forget what Yancey has taught us: you are in control of your education, how well you want to do depends on you. The amount of effort you put into things, the resources used, the time spent, the moments being reflective, all of it adds together to help you succeed. Plan out your next two weeks -- give yourself a schedule and hold yourself accountable to it. Give yourself little goals to achieve and check them off once you complete them. And remember .. you’ve got this!

Throughout the past quarter, you have been thinking and theorizing about your understanding of writing and your identity as a writer. For this post, I want you to discuss who you believe you are as a writer. You have to do this in a non-traditional way in that you are not merely responding to questions. Begin by thinking about what are some characteristics that define who you are as a writer. What are they? Then decide how you want to represent this.

Some suggestions of what you could create to get your point across:

*A job wanted ad or a personal

*an obit (an obituary)

*a short short (a piece of fiction that is super short)

*a song

*a narrative poem (shorter poems will not count)

The possibilities are very open, but the end result must be representative of who you are as a writer and they must be written (so no media for this post!). 

Once you complete this, then you must do a quick reflection:

Why did you pick the characteristics that you did? What has influenced your writerly identity (include both past experiences and current experiences)? What's been a memorable college writing experience that has impacted your writerly identity and why this experience? Sum up as how you view yourself as a writer.

NO Responses to Peers for this post.

The second part of being in attendance also due by 11:59 pm on Friday, February 23, 2018. 

As a reminder ...

The Theory of Writing

The evolution of writing is something that helps us understand what.writing.is – to us, to others, to vast audiences, and so on. Part of this class includes you developing your “theory of writing” and given that we are on the back end of the quarter, this is a fitting moment to pause and consider what your theory is right now.

A theory of writing gives you, the writer, the opportunity to think about your relationship with writing: it enables you consider what writing is to you. This can include, but is not limited to, what is your writing process(es), what is your practices, what types of key terms provide the foundation for your theory, how do you actually enact those key terms in your writing, and so on. It is within this theory that you can articulate – in your own words using your own language – how you understand writing, what you’ve learned about writing, and where writing can take you.

So, this is your theory of writing take 2! Here’s what you need to do: 

1. Go and reread what you wrote for the first round. 

2. Reflect upon what is working, still makes sense about your understanding of writing, and what needs to change. 

3. Write up a new theory of writing, this time starting to use your own writing as evidence for what you are saying. The final version should be 300 words  +

4. Next, create a meme that represents your theory of writing. The goal is to create a form of rhetoric, a form of discourse. Memes can do that when they are done correctly. One little caveat: you can NOT pull an image from the web. You have to actually use one of your own images taken with your phone and/or your camera. There are lots of meme generators out there to use or you can simply use a picture and add a caption to it. 

ALL due by Friday, February 23, 2018 by 11:59 in order to (a) be in attendance and (b) receive credit for the work. 

Good luck!