Project brainstorming/messy draft stuff

Sharable/ private writing
• Shared writing is that which is accepted by the institution and therefore it is limiting because it has a form and guidelines which deem certain things wrong/right. Private writing has no boundaries, a person can write any way they want without fearing rejection or that they will be told their writing is wrong.
how did these boundaries get set?
• School teaches students that they need to write a certain way/ that there are expectations of what their writing should look like.
• Journal writing is often described as personal writing as is informal. When applied to the classroom the journal writing consists of messy drafts/ideas but it is still being limited by the institution because there are still things that are considered inappropriate to write about.
how do those boundaries empower and limit me as a writer?
• There are two voices and one feels more of my own that the other. Sharable writing (academic writing)
• now more papers are asking me to react to an essay or an idea but usually the assignment was to regurgitate what I had already read in order to prove that I understood it. Essentially the assignment was to read a text, understand it by changing it to your language, then write a paper using a mixture of the language from the text and your own language. Yu had to show you picked up new language/ a new discourse. Join the conversation. However, the student is not as familiar with the discourse so they're essentially a scribe wielding a long sword that they can barely pick up let alone wield in battle.
• personal writing becomes more difficult because I'm used to writing academic papers and so de-conditioning myself to be able to write freely without censoring my thoughts is a wall that needs to be demolished before I can sit down and write in my own voice.

Marian MacCurdy "From Trauma to Writing"

Anderson and MacCurdy say that professors of writing have tended to marginalize writing that deals with trauma because it "challenges [their] practical, political, and theoretical assumptions about the power, place, and purpose of writing" (2). This also alienates the writers of such texts in favor of more controlled discourses of the academy" (2).

"Excluding life writing limits what people can do with words" (38).

Sandra Perl "Felt Sense"

James Pennebaker "Opening Up"

Marian MacCurdy "From Trauma to Writing"

Duffy

Chamberlain

I have sections of my transcript but I think I have too many excerpts and I'm not sure which ones I will choose to analyze more deeply in order to include it in the paper.

Blog Post #3

For me writing is sort of like spilling my thoughts onto the paper. I tend to spend a lot of time thinking about the ideas and processing it before I get anything down on paper. I don't like writing unless I've fleshed out what I want to write about. The ideas have to be clear to me in order for me to be able to write it out and communicate that idea with other people.
I don't have a voice inside my head telling me what to type, the words just come to me as I'm writing them. I'll read it back in my head as I'm typing but I don't tend to read whole sentences over instead I'll go back after I finish the paragraph and review/revise it.

If ever I get stuck when I'm writing I tend to read the previous sentence out loud and then continue reading out loud as I type so that I can hear how the sentence sounds. This helps me make sense of what I'm trying to say when writing the words down isn't making sense to me.

Blog Post #2

Research Project interests

I'm leaning towards what I chose to do my bibliography on for 5020, which is including everyone in the conversation. I want to explore how words are used in the classroom and how they can alienate a large group of people and deny them their own voice. There are issues when trying to write in a voice that's not your own, and like Andre said in class, this happens a lot for students who try to conform to the academic language used and they feel like their own voice is being kept silent.

Blog Post #1

What I do as a Writer, what is most valuable, & what I have been taught + what I have't

I tend to procrastinate when it comes to writing, whether it be personal or academic. If I have something to write I like to think about it a lot before putting anything down on paper. I have to sort out what I want to write in my head before I put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard). I guess there's something about the permanence of words that makes me want to think my ideas over (a lot) before getting them down. Even though it's very easy to delete on the computer or throw away a piece of paper and start again, once I write the words and read them it's as if the idea comes to life and just flows; if there is a hitch then it all comes unraveling. This feeling is probably because when I was younger I believed the first draft was the last and if that wasn't good then that just meant I wasn't a good writer. So basically I do my pre-writing/brainstorming/drafty stuff in my head before I feel comfortable enough to write anything down.

What I value most about writing is how it is infinite. No matter how many years a person has been writing there is always something new to learn, a new way to write thoughts and ideas that give them a different meaning.

There was very little I learned about writing in school apart from grammar, web diagrams, outlines, and of course the essay formula almost everyone had ingrained in their brains. A lot of what I know about writing came from reading different novels and trying to write like those authors. Of course in college there where some courses that taught me how to be a better writer (even if unintentionally). I still have a lot to learn and focusing my attention and academic career on writing will hopefully aid in filling in those gaps left behind from years of not being taught what writing was or how to do it.