I have really enjoyed our lively conversations in class and reading through your work this semester. The topics you selected for your final projects are important and I believe that in thinking deeply about these issues and sharing your work in the classroom, during presentations, and on the blogs, we all have learned and grown so much this semester. Thanks for being an inspiring group of students!
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Friday, August 24, 2012
Welcome to our Canvas!
Dear Students,
Like painters, writers craft in layers. Whether ideas begin in a rough
sketch or a vague brush stroke, every artist must start somewhere.
Deep thinking drives the artistic process, but mishaps, confusions and
mistakes chart the course. What ultimately comes out on the canvas is
the result of careful attention to form, but inherent in this process is
that which is unforeseen at the outset. Slowly the layers build and as
they do, they inspire new ideas and in this way writing is mysterious,
surprising and utterly unpredictable.
As students enrolled in Composition 1A, you are all writers now. Your
individual blogs provide you with a canvas for contemplation and
reflection, a place to explore and experiment.
Your goals here are simple: Read, Think, and Write!
Welcome to the Humanities.
by Stanley Kunitz
I have walked so many lives
Some of them my own
And I am not who I was
Though some principle of being abides
From which I struggle not to stray
When I look behind as I am compelled to look
Before I gather strengths to proceed on my journey
I see the milestones dwindling toward the horizon
And the slow fires trailing from the abandoned campsites
Over which scavenger angels wheel on heavy wings
Oh I have made myself a tribe out of my true affections
And my tribe is scattered
How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?
In a rising wind the manic dust of my friends
those who fell along the way, bitterly stings my face.
Yet I turn, I turn, exalting somewhat with my wings intact
to go wherever I need to go
and every stone on the road precious to me
In my darkest night when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage
A nimbus clouded voice directed me, “Live in the layers. Not on the litter.”
Though I lack the art to decipher it, no doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written.
I am not done
with my changes.
I have walked so many lives
Some of them my own
And I am not who I was
Though some principle of being abides
From which I struggle not to stray
When I look behind as I am compelled to look
Before I gather strengths to proceed on my journey
I see the milestones dwindling toward the horizon
And the slow fires trailing from the abandoned campsites
Over which scavenger angels wheel on heavy wings
Oh I have made myself a tribe out of my true affections
And my tribe is scattered
How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?
In a rising wind the manic dust of my friends
those who fell along the way, bitterly stings my face.
Yet I turn, I turn, exalting somewhat with my wings intact
to go wherever I need to go
and every stone on the road precious to me
In my darkest night when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage
A nimbus clouded voice directed me, “Live in the layers. Not on the litter.”
Though I lack the art to decipher it, no doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written.
I am not done
with my changes.
Keys to Successful College Writing
Here are eight habits of mind essential for success in college writing:
* Curiosity – the desire to know more about the world.
* Openness – the willingness to consider new ways of being and thinking in the world.
* Engagement – a sense of investment and involvement in learning.
* Creativity – the ability to use novel approaches for generating, investigating, and representing ideas.
* Persistence – the ability to sustain interest in and attention to short- and long-term projects.
* Responsibility – the ability to take ownership of one’s actions and
understand the consequences of those actions for oneself and others.
* Flexibility – the ability to adapt to situations, expectations, or demands.
* Metacognition – the ability to reflect on one’s own thinking as well
as on the individual and cultural processes used to structure knowledge.
Source: Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing Council of Writing Program Administrators
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