Week twelve reflective writing
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This document provides information for students in their Composition II Week Twelve class. It includes due dates for assignments like an annotated bibliography and APA short essay draft. It also provides details about properly formatting the APA essay and introduces the author Joan Didion. The document discusses Didion's life and work, and summarizes her essay "On Keeping a Notebook" which explores the purpose and value of keeping a notebook or journal. Finally, it outlines different types of writing for self-reflection like journaling, writing lists, notes, creative writing, and creating arguments with oneself.
Week twelve reflective writing
- 1. COMPOSITION II WEEK TWELVE Tursday November 10, 2016 DUE TODAY: -Annotated Bibliography to Drop Box -APA Short Essay Rough Draft to Drop Box BE WORKING ON: -APA Final Draft -Group Projects -Final Paper Thesis and Outline
- 2. About Your APA Short Essay • Use the essay you selected as a primary resource • You must introduce this article and the author in your introduction • Explain whether you agree or disagree • Double space your abstract and cover page • Have a very specific title • Employ all proper writing mechanics
- 3. Quiz Over Joan Didion’s “On Keeping a Notebook”
- 4. Joan Didion • American writer • Best known for her novels and literary journalism • Writes on American morals, the cultural chaos of the 1960s, and the fragmentation of self and society • A key writer in new journalism • New journalism- communicates fact through narrative story telling and literary techniques
- 5. On Keeping a Notebook • “Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of it actually happened? Did any of it? Why do I keep a notebook at all?” • “So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking.” • “I imagine, in other words, that the notebook is about other people. But of course it is not…Remember what it was to be me: that is always the point.” • “I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”
- 6. Writing for Self WEEK TWELVE
- 7. Writing for Self • Reflective writing is the process of writing for self • Many people write for their own purposes and have no intention of showing their work to the pubic • Reflective writing can be very creative or very rigid • Types of reflective writing: • Journaling/ keeping a diary • Writing lists • Jotting notes • Creative writing
- 8. Journaling and Keeping a Diary • These regular entries act as a chronology of events or observations • Collectively, these can be studied through different lenses • Many historical, philosophical, and sociological discoveries and observations have been made by studying journals and diaries • Useful types of journals/diaries: • Personal • Dream diaries • Food diaries • Exercise journals • Observational journals
- 9. Writing Lists • A very simple and useful form of self reflection • Make lists about personal matters or for organizational reasons • Example: Writing a list of foods you are not going to eat after New Years • Example: Making a grocery list • Pro/Con lists are helpful in making decisions • Also, in researching!
- 10. Jotting Notes • Jotting notes is an easy and noncommittal form of self reflection • Types of things to note: • Quotes • Funny situations • Awkward situations • Important dates • Interesting facts • Names • Jokes
- 11. Creative Writing • Often people write creatively to create a conversation with themselves • Poems, short stories, and creative non-fiction can all be exercises in self reflection • By creating worlds where anything is possible and characters that can do anything, writers are free to explore topics without boundaries or real-life consequences
- 12. Creating an Argument with Yourself • Reflective writing often forces us to recognize aspects of ourselves that might have been left unrealized • Often, reflective writing becomes an argument we create with ourselves • We may be direct about it or ambiguous • Sometimes an argument is created over time or theoretically