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Reading and Writing are Superpowers*
In a comment on this post, use some piece of Gee’s “Discourse” theory to explain how using Gerald Graff’s and Cathy Birkenstein’s templates could “help your writing become more original and creative” (Graff and Birkenstein 11). What would Gee say about how having pre-set templates empower you to be more creative as a thinker and writer? Read More …
Remember our procedure for making text-to-text connections: Locate a passage from one text (Delpit’s Critique 1) Paraphrase it Find a related passage in another text (Gee’s discussion on p. 7 of how you can’t learn Discourses through overt instruction) Paraphrase it Use what would Author 1 say to Author 2 about a specific example drawn Read More …
In Habits of the Creative Mind, you read and marked-up “On Reading as a Writer” with an eye towards understanding how experienced writers, like Susan Sontag, read. In a 5 minute comment on this post, describe and explain some of the strategies that experienced writers, like Sontag, use to get the most out of their reading time.
In “On the Miracle of Language,” Miller and Jurecic explain that language is commonly thought of as both “a sacred gift” and a functional communication tool (134). But they urge emerging writers to put aside these common ideas, and focus instead on the “creative, generative, exploratory powers” of language (134). As you compose your reply to Read More …
Why did Juliane Koepcke survive an airplane disaster over the Peruvian Amazon when others died? According to Miller and Jurecic’s paraphrase of Laurence Gonzalez, she survived because: “Rather than follow rules, she improvised” (22) “Although she was afraid…, she used that fear as a resource for action” (22) She had “‘an inner-resource, a state of mind’ Read More …
Add a comment to this post, in which you include, attribute, explain, and cite a passage from “I Just Wanna Be Average” that resonates with you. Your goal in your comment is to explain something new-to-you that have learned about literacy by looking at this passage through the lenses of one or more of Juliane Read More …
Follow the link to get to our Padlet space, where we’ll work together to annotate excerpts from Deborah Brandt’s, “Sponsors of Literacy.” Padlet, essentially, is an electronic bulletin board with unlimited “wall-space” for “sticky notes.” What I like about Padlet is the ability to collaborate with others. I also like that I can put any kind Read More …
