Inventing the Writing Center

Building off earlier conversations, the writing center, first and foremost, must be a place to foster ones, well, everything. Foster creativity, kindness, writing potential, etc. In my own writing center, I'd like a smoothie bar. No kidding. Or like a juice bar. Let's give out fruit that'll make everyone happy and healthy. Fruit for everyone. …

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Reflection of the Semester

This semester has been a blast. I was fond of the candidate visits, especially the second candidate who really challenged us to get into depth in a writing-center-esque simulation. The topic was capital punishment and we all put our heads together to get into the nitty gritty. The point of it was to demonstrate how …

Literacy Sponsorship at the juncture of Brandt and Lamott

Question: What evidence of literacy sponsorship, as Brandt defines it, is evident in Lamott's chapter? Lamott, in the last few pages of her Shitty First Drafts piece, discusses how it's imperative to find the right person to bounce ideas off of, the right person to go to for criticism. This relates back to Brandt's sponsorship …

Sponsorship Narrative Frameworks

page 167 Brandt asks who are the people, what are the institutions, materials, and motivations that have been involved in your process of gaining access to literacy? People: parents, teachers, celeb, peers Institutions: media, environmental, educational/performing institutions, bookstores, home, workplaces Materials: books, internet, social media, magazines, pens and pencils, games, notebooks Motivations: to converse with …

One-Inch Picture Frame

Anne Lamott talks about the one inch picture frame. With a subject like literacy, even if we narrow it by tending to sponsorship, it's still a huge topic. After initial drafting, how am I narrowing this topic? Where am I finding my focus, center of gravity. Think about the writing we've already done (loop writing, …

Literacy Sponsorship Final (inclusive of all drafts)

March 20, 2017 Loop writing exercise: First Thoughts Having done a literacy project freshman year first semester in my EN 10 class, maybe I have a little insight into what’s going on when it comes to one’s literacy, how they obtained it, what obstacles they had to surpass in order to obtain it, etc. At …

Academic Commons

I've been researching what an Academic Commons recently, and have one conclusion: My research can be published in one. I started with a quick Google search of 'academic commons' and was met with a list of other University's who have an academic commons open to the public for free. Columbia University's statement: "Academic Commons is …

Guided Writing Portrait

Assignment: Choose someone who appears in your literacy narrative draft and write portrait about them. One paragraph. Based off the directions given in class. Insegnami a Volare We had been seeing each other after school on Thursdays for a few weeks straight. Each session I brought my Italian text book, Amici, that she adored thumbing through, …

Oxford Guide Chapter 4/Plagiarism pg 99

Having seen plagiarism time and time again, I felt it was only appropriate to talk about it. Before reading the section, let's discuss my knowledge of plagiarism at Fairfield. My friend was in a 100 level English class last semester, and she, a very intelligent and conscientious student, knows how to properly cite a paper. …

Literary Sponsorship Loop-Writing Exercise

First Thoughts Having done a literacy project freshman year first semester in my EN 10 class, maybe I have a little insight into what’s going on when it comes to one’s literacy, how they obtained it, what obstacles they had to surpass in order to obtain it, etc. At the time I didn’t think I …