Conference: Part 2
Part 2 of Conference Day: it is DUE on Monday, September 23, 2019 @ 11:59 pm to your Tumblrs. This is part of your attendance for the day.
Part 1, The Writing Self: Who are you as a Writer?
One thing that we don’t often take time to think about is who we are as writers in other words looking at our writerly identity. Each person’s writerly identity should be unique to them, should represent how he/she understands and approaches each writing situation, and evolves with them the more experiences he/she has in writing. However, often times, our writerly identity becomes wrapped up in superficial understandings about writing -- writing for sake of a grade, writing to please a teacher, writing only because we are told to do so -- so that we don’t truly understand who we are as writers. For the first part of this post, you are going to do just that: think about who you are as a writer. To do this, I want you to recall 2 different experiences with writing, one from your K-12 writing experiences, and one from your college writing experiences (not limited to only writing courses, you could use any writing experience in college, so it could be things you are write *while* in college), that have shaped your current understanding of writing. In 150-200 words a piece, tell these stories working on weaving them together so that you conclude by revealing your current understanding of who you are as a writer.
The goal is for you to use these 2 stories to explore your identity as a writer so that you can come to a conclusion about who you are as a writer, right now in this moment.
Part 2, The Theory of Writing: Take 1
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, or continuing to develop, your “theory of writing.”
Definition: 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.
Research has proven that the theory of writing becomes the framework by which students utilize the transfer of knowledge moving out of their writing courses and into new writing contexts.
This will be your first attempt at creating a theory of writing. You can begin by thinking through what writing means/represents to you, how define (good) writing, and what it takes for you, the writer, to create good writing based on your definition.
Both parts are DUE by 11:59 pm on Monday, September 23, 2019!
