the target of opinon

When we give an opinion, sometimes we say more about ourselves that that about which we express the opinion.   We may think we are assessing the thing or the idea or the target, but we say something about ourselves.  Hence we want to take care when we analyse a film that we take the film on its own terms and assess it according to whether it succeeded in its own terms.

No problem with the emotional responses to the film we saw.  That's part of it, too.  It is just that we do not want to stop there.

Good group!  Lively!

Alas! The five actions for our writing assignment are:

1. Phone rings
2. Running for your life
3. Scavenging for food
4. Trying to understand
5. Writing on the board

Agenda Week 2

R E V E L A T I O N
One Word Improvisations - assignment (no more than 2 pages)
Blog - show and tell
cartoon
love
MP - questions

Business Letter:  assignment
Read 1st three chapters of Zissner book.

4:45  "Is this movie good?"  why? why not?  how? what didn't it do or couldn't it do or could it have done?

NEXT WEEK

Grammar exercises (fun ones)
Quads - and an assignment

Agenda Week 1

Introduction:  Vonnegut

Table of writing (syllabus and this blog:  the table)  Stages of the writing process

Yourself as a writer (no name)  - 7 groups of 2:   Feedback (names) then return to creator for revisions- due next weekVideo - two posts down:  on revising.   Hand in next week.   around 300 words.
"Research" and "critical thinking":   Aristotle assignment
Map writing
Blog sign ups

Morning pages assignment - and test it here

Syllabus