Imagine! You have a photograph of a moment, a person, a setting: it captures time. So does your writing.
Each time you put thoughts to paper you are crafting ideas and crafting language to shape your ideas.
Each time your write you rework, reshape and redefine your ideas and language.
Keep a writer’s notebook this semester. Use it to record the various stages to producing a final piece of writing for an assignment. Your writing will grow like a tree – an idea will take root, branching out until you have a finished work; from a seed to fruition.
How?
1. In class you will be asked to write a number of initial drafts. You can come back to these later in assignments. Put these in your notebook.
2. Post your initial drafts in your small group blogs – remember these are initial drafts. Share ideas how the work can be improved.
3. Adapt and change your piece of writing as ideas come from class or from other sources.
4. Submit your final version, and post this again in your small group blog.
5 comments:
Hello Allyson! That's a great idea, it will require our time and dedication, but I'm sure that will be made with great pleasure! Writing, drafting, sketching thoughts with words... captivating!
See you tomorrow ^^
P.s.: Thank you for the reminder of the picture!
Oh, and by the way, it pleases me the picture you've put on the blog, with the trees and the fabulous autumn's red colours. It makes the blog feel cosy ^^
Thanks! See you tomorrow ^^
The more the image, the better the mind.
Fabulous skies!! I take photos of skies and then try and turn them into silk paintings ... sometimes it works :-)
Thank you so much!
Humm, I wonder if you could show us those silk paintings one day, I got curious about it!
^^
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