User:Tash/RW&RM 02
For the Special Issue 5 reader
Synopsis writing
- synopsis as a form of annotation, of situating and adding context to written content
- writing abstracts, and synopsis as part of research practice, to better understand key elements of texts
- First synopsis: The Electronic Revolution by William Burroughs > on language as tactical media, the written and recorded word as political instrument, and cut-ups as a method of subverting language
- Second synopses: The Digital Universal Library and the myth of chaos by Sanne Koevoets and The Suspicious Archive by James T. Hong > on creating feminist knowledge spaces and archive politics
- Synopses written for the reader: here
Essay writing
- making synopses helped me to get back into my formal / analytical writing practice
- my comparative essay: On female authorship in American and Indonesian literary history
- improvements to make:
- unpack key concepts like feminism and women's role as subject/object – learn to read the essay from an outsider's perspective to see where the gaps are
- use more specific / concrete examples and make sure they are introduced & elaborated on
- pay attention to how vocabulary can strengthen your point - keywords like: discourse, class