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Today's pad: | |||
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/LB1_RWRM_16_Nov_22 | |||
Luni / Sam https://pad.xpub.nl/p/qEY7q1dfiZQm5GjBHE8v | |||
[[Until the impossible can be proven impossible, is it?]] -Clara text | |||
[[Free writing assignment]] - Yalou text (poem) | |||
[[Session3 - Exploring a relevant question]] - Aitana | |||
[[What time is it in Rotterdam?]] - Te text | |||
[[MuyangText|Anus - Muyang]] | |||
[[File:Two Holes (unedited).pdf|left|thumb|Two holes (first scribble/draft) - Arabella]] | |||
'''Outcome:''' | '''Outcome:''' | ||
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Draft of a text exploring a question relevant to your practice. This is material you can draw on when you work on your text on practice next semester. | Draft of a text exploring a question relevant to your practice. This is material you can draw on when you work on your text on practice next semester. | ||
'''Overview of the day''' | |||
In this close reading and writing session, taking Anne Boyer's text 'Questions For Poets' as a starting point, we will be looking at ‘mode of address’: how a text speaks to its reader. We will also consider how texts can be in conversation with other texts. | |||
We will explore practical ways to facilitate the writing process using prompts and freewriting, with special emphasis on the question as a form for generating written material. We will also think about questions around our own work. | |||
'''Revised Overview of the day''' | |||
'''11:00- 11:45''' | '''11:00- 11:45''' | ||
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Collective reading of the text + | Collective reading of the text + | ||
Intro to close reading exercise | Intro to close reading exercise | ||
'''12:00 – 12:30''' | |||
'''12:00 – | |||
Collective discussion | Collective discussion | ||
'''Break''' | '''Break''' | ||
''' | '''13:30 – 14:00''' | ||
Individual freewriting session | Individual freewriting session (20 mins) | ||
Intro to writing session - discussing mode of address + structure (10 mins) | |||
'''14: | '''14:00 – 15:20''' | ||
Individual writing session – developing material to produce a draft text | Review of material for development into a text using the questions we have discussed OR second freewriting session (20 mins) | ||
Individual writing session – developing material to produce a draft text (1 hour) | |||
''' | |||
'''Break''' | |||
'''15:30 – 16:30''' | |||
Small groups: discussion of draft texts | Small groups: discussion of draft texts | ||
'''16:30 - 17.00''' | |||
'''16: | |||
Collective review of session + wrap-up | Collective review of session + wrap-up | ||
''' | '''The day in more detail:''' | ||
'''11:00- 11:45''' | '''11:00- 11:45''' | ||
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https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/questions-poets#_edn1 | https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/questions-poets#_edn1 | ||
Collective reading of the text | Collective reading of the text | ||
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'''Break''' | '''Break''' | ||
'''12:00 – | '''12:00 – 12:30''' | ||
Close reading exercise in groups of 3 | Close reading exercise in groups of 3 | ||
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'''Break''' | '''Break''' | ||
''' | '''13:30 – 14:00''' | ||
Individual freewriting session | |||
Individual freewriting session in response to a prompt relating to your research | |||
Possible sources of prompts: Questions For Poets or scratch directory: | |||
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/ScratchDirectory | |||
'''Individual freewriting session (20 mins)''' | |||
'''Intro to writing session - planning your text (10 mins)''' | |||
Use your freewriting material (or elements of it) as the basis for a more structured text which asks a question of your practice, or its broader context. | |||
Begin by thinking about the text’s mode of address: how would you like your text to speak to the reader? | |||
Some questions you can ask yourself as you plan your text: | |||
What will the function of your text be? (e.g. To entertain, provoke, explain...?) | |||
Who will your reader be? | |||
What form will your text take? (e.g. script, diary entry, letter, essay, series of fragments) | |||
Will you include any structuring elements e.g. subheadings, short numbered sections | |||
What is the title of your planned text? | |||
You can decide its length from the beginning, or you can wait and see what you end up with. | |||
'''14: | '''14:00 – 15:20''' | ||
Individual writing session | Individual writing session | ||
Begin by reviewing your freewriting material for development into a text OR doing a second freewriting session (20 mins) | |||
Work on text (1 hour) | |||
'''Break''' | |||
'''15:30 – 16:30 | |||
''' | |||
Group exercise | Group exercise | ||
In your groups, | In your groups, read and discuss one another’s texts, paying attention to mode of address. Talk about the decisions you made in relation to the questions above. Discuss how texts could be developed. | ||
'''16:30 - 17.00''' | |||
'''16: | |||
Review of session + wrap-up''' | Review of session + wrap-up''' |
Latest revision as of 18:18, 17 November 2022
Today's pad:
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/LB1_RWRM_16_Nov_22
Luni / Sam https://pad.xpub.nl/p/qEY7q1dfiZQm5GjBHE8v
Until the impossible can be proven impossible, is it? -Clara text
Free writing assignment - Yalou text (poem)
Session3 - Exploring a relevant question - Aitana
What time is it in Rotterdam? - Te text
Outcome:
Draft of a text exploring a question relevant to your practice. This is material you can draw on when you work on your text on practice next semester.
In this close reading and writing session, taking Anne Boyer's text 'Questions For Poets' as a starting point, we will be looking at ‘mode of address’: how a text speaks to its reader. We will also consider how texts can be in conversation with other texts.
We will explore practical ways to facilitate the writing process using prompts and freewriting, with special emphasis on the question as a form for generating written material. We will also think about questions around our own work.
Revised Overview of the day
11:00- 11:45 Introduction to the text + Collective reading of the text + Intro to close reading exercise 12:00 – 12:30 Collective discussion
Break
13:30 – 14:00 Individual freewriting session (20 mins)
Intro to writing session - discussing mode of address + structure (10 mins)
14:00 – 15:20 Review of material for development into a text using the questions we have discussed OR second freewriting session (20 mins) Individual writing session – developing material to produce a draft text (1 hour)
Break
15:30 – 16:30 Small groups: discussion of draft texts
16:30 - 17.00 Collective review of session + wrap-up
The day in more detail:
11:00- 11:45 Introduction to the text: Anne Boyer's Questions For Poets:
https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/questions-poets#_edn1
Collective reading of the text
Intro to close reading exercise - overview of guiding questions:
What is 'mode of address'? How does this text speak to you as a reader? How is this text in conversation with other texts? What thoughts do you have about the structure of the text? What other comments, thoughts, questions, do you have on/about this text?
Break
12:00 – 12:30
Close reading exercise in groups of 3 Taking guiding questions as a starting point
Collective discussion
Break
13:30 – 14:00
Individual freewriting session in response to a prompt relating to your research Possible sources of prompts: Questions For Poets or scratch directory:
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/ScratchDirectory
Individual freewriting session (20 mins)
Intro to writing session - planning your text (10 mins)
Use your freewriting material (or elements of it) as the basis for a more structured text which asks a question of your practice, or its broader context.
Begin by thinking about the text’s mode of address: how would you like your text to speak to the reader?
Some questions you can ask yourself as you plan your text:
What will the function of your text be? (e.g. To entertain, provoke, explain...?)
Who will your reader be?
What form will your text take? (e.g. script, diary entry, letter, essay, series of fragments)
Will you include any structuring elements e.g. subheadings, short numbered sections
What is the title of your planned text?
You can decide its length from the beginning, or you can wait and see what you end up with.
14:00 – 15:20
Individual writing session
Begin by reviewing your freewriting material for development into a text OR doing a second freewriting session (20 mins)
Work on text (1 hour)
Break
15:30 – 16:30 Group exercise
In your groups, read and discuss one another’s texts, paying attention to mode of address. Talk about the decisions you made in relation to the questions above. Discuss how texts could be developed.
16:30 - 17.00
Review of session + wrap-up