16NovMethods
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'll also be looking at how texts can be in conversation with one another - how as writers we can build our own texts through our reading.
We will also 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’ll also consider how formulating questions around our work can help us to develop our research.
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.
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