Thursday, September 8, 2011
How to Create Your Blog in Blogger
Creating a blog can be challenging. To help you, I've set up a "how-to" blog which illustrates how to create a blog to share your research and your writings. Simply visit WritingBlogGenre.Blogspot.com and follow the directions starting from the About tab at the top.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Sharing Information Online with Blogger
Research isn't helpful unless we're able to effectively discuss and share our findings. For today's project, you'll assemble a basic framework for sharing research using Blogger.
Conducting Multifaceted Research
As writers, one of our primary tasks is to bring together disparate types of information, analyze them, and then present them to our readers as a coherent (and complete) narrative. To do this, we first need research our subjects from several different angles.
Multifaceted Research - Sharing Information Online
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Parody, Satire, and Genre
Often, true mastery of genre is best seen in our ability to mimic the genre forms while breaking our expectations in terms of the message.
Of Related Interest: Music Videos - Parody Videos
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The Oral Tradition: Writing Evolves from Speech
It's no accident that written alphabets are adapted to serve the needs of spoken speech. As humans, our language first evolved as an oral tradition. It's only been recently (in the past five to six thousand years or so - yes, recently) that language has come to be shared through visual media.
Milner Library Resources
Research is a critical component of writing. Whether you write fiction, nonfiction, or even poetry, you want your words to reflect reality - doing this effectively sometimes requires the kind of specialized knowledge best found through the library.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Online Collaboration: Bridging Time and Geography
This Post is Under Construction. To learn more about online resources, see Establishing Your Online Presence.
Blog Platforms for Building Your Online Presence
As writers, we depend upon our audience to provide feedback and support for our work. Fortunately for us, we live in the era of personalized mass communication. Through blogs, social media, and e-mail, we are able to reach out to our readers in new and exciting ways. Here are resources and tips to get you started.
Your Online Presence: Blogging
One of the critical components of writing is sharing that writing with an audience. For English 101, you'll be using online resources to share your work with other members of the class and audiences from beyond Illinois State. The first part of this involves your "base of operations," so-to-speak: the blog.
Setting Up Your Blog
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Shifting Grammar and Syntax to Meet Genre and Cultural Conventions
Today, we're going to examine the role of grammar, style, and syntax in understanding the conventions of genre. This post complements Haley Stouffer's article "How i Lrnd 2 Txt: An Adventure in Genre."
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Fall 2011 Pre-Course Survey
Here's a quick survey to see where each of you are in your writing. Please be sincere in your answers - in genre studies, there are no wrong answers. Every writer is somewhere on the writing continuum - our goal is to help you progress both as a writer and a thinker. Go to Form-->
English 101: Composition as Critical Inquiry
Today we'll go over the course syllabus and several the electronic resources we'll be using over the semester.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Teaching Meter in Poetry
Now that you've seen what meter is, let's take a look at how we learn to use it. This article is useful both for teachers of poetry and for those who would like more practice with hearing meter.
Meter in Poetry
Meter is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line of a poem. In a stressed-syllabic language like English, meter is the way we identify and understand the overall rhythm of the piece.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Metrical Poetry - Rhyme, Meter, and Rhythm
Our focus in poetry so far has been centered on themes, images, and figurative language. This week, we turn our attention to the "rhythm" of a poems - the rhyme, meter, and structure of formalist (closed-form) poetry.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Hopkins Review Essays - Winter 2011
Though the literary essay may not feel as "creative" as a story or a poem, it does provide some very useful tools to help us progress as creative writers. For this semester, we'll be writing five-page essays to be turned in with the final portfolio on the last day of class. For your essay, please choose either a story or poem(s) from the Winter 2011 Hopkins Review.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Participation Grades - The 100-Point Scale
Participation is a critical component of any creative writing course. We learn from each other by sharing our thoughts on the readings and workshop pieces.
Course Grading - Participation
Friday, April 1, 2011
Mining Poetry from Emotions, Memory, and Sensation
What is the source of poetry? How do we develop the carefully measured lines of poetry from the nebulous memories and emotions of our lives? In these exercises, we look at what makes a poem "good," and then practice using these concepts in developing our own poetry.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Figures of Speech in Poetry
Figures of Speech are used to relate one term or concept using ideas or emotions which wouldn't naturally be used for the original term.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Structure and Nuance in Fiction: Long Story Workshops
A "short" story is typically less than 7,500 words (around 25 or fewer double-spaced pages.) With out long story workshops, we pass well beyond flash fiction and the short-short story into fully-developed short stories and the early chapters of novels.
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