16NovMethods

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.

Overview of the day

11:00- 11:45 Introduction to the text + Collective reading of the text + Intro to close reading exercise

Break

12:00 – 13:00 Close reading exercise in small groups + Collective discussion

Break

14:00 – 14:30 Individual freewriting session – producing material in response to prompt

14:30 – 16:00 Individual writing session – developing material to produce a draft text

16:00 – 16:30 Small groups: discussion of draft texts

Break

16:40 - 17.00 Collective review of session + wrap-up

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 – 13:00

Close reading exercise in groups of 3 Taking guiding questions as a starting point

Collective discussion

Break

14:00 – 14:30 Individual freewriting session: intro

Concept of the ‘prompt’; questions as prompts; revisiting the Scratch Directory:

   https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/ScratchDirectory

Individual freewriting session in response to prompt relating to your research

14:30 – 16:00 Individual writing session

Review the outcome of your freewriting session. Use this 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?

16:00 – 16:30 Group exercise

In your groups, spend 10 mins each reading one another’s texts, discussing mode of address.

Break

16:40 - 17.00

Review of session + wrap-up