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Advanced Strategies for Rhetoric and Research
The Practices of Memory

English 190.9
Spring 2004

Assigned Journal Entries

Entry 1 | Entry 2 | Entry 3 | Entry 4 | Entry 5 | Entry 6 | Entry 7 | Entry 8 | Entry 9 |

Assigned Journal Entry 1 (13 Jan.)

Part 1: Think about a significant gathering you attended over the break, a holiday party, opening presents with your family, getting together with friends from home, etc. Briefly describe what you see and how you see it. Do you see the scene through your eyes as if you were there? Or do you see the scene as if you were an observer watching the event?

Part 2: Think back to an event from early elementary school, a school play, a birthday party, a family trip, etc. Briefly describe what you see and how you see it. Do you see the scene through your eyes as if you were there? Or do you see the scene as if you were an observer watching the event?

Assigned Journal Entry 2 (13 Jan.)

Respond to Taking Stock #1 in Portfolio Keeping.

Assigned Journal Entry 3 (15 Jan.)

Reflect upon the process of writing Writing Assignment 1. What steps did you do to complete the assignment? Did you find the assignment easy or difficult and what about it do you think make it easy or hard? What key decision or choices did you make about organizing your essay and where do these decisions show up in your text? What ideas or questions about memory developed as you worked on the assignment?

Assigned Journal Entry 4 (22 Jan.)

Reflect upon the process of writing the peer review draft of Writing Project 1. What steps did you do to complete the assignment? Did you find the assignment easy or difficult and what about it do you think make it easy or hard? What key decision or choices did you make about organizing your essay and where do these decisions show up in your text? What ideas or questions about memory developed as you worked on the assignment?

Assigned Journal Entry 5 (29 Jan.)

Write about the experience of peer reviewing Writing Project 1. What did you like about the process? What did you dislike about the process? What sorts of comments did you provide? Did any of the essays do something radically different than you in approaching the topic? By reviewing other students' work, have you gained any insight or developed any ideas which you can use as you revise your own essay? What do you think of Comment so far?

Assigned Journal Entry 6 (3 Feb.)

Respond to either the Hempl or Engel readings.

Assigned Journal Entry 7 (17 Feb.)

Write about your first experience with the MOO Connections. Narrate what you did or thought or felt as you explored the MOO and think about why you've reacted to it as you did.

Assigned Journal Entry 8 (24 Feb.)

Write about your first experience with creating a MOO object. Narrate what you did or thought or felt or difficulties you had as you created the object.

Assigned Journal Entry 9 (16 March)

Begin brainstorming for your midterm portfolio essay.

Last Modified: 13 March 2004

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