Week 5 -- We've Been Doing A LOT of Writing

Quote for this week: 

"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed." -- Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451

Over these past few weeks, we have been doing a lot of different kinds of writing, from informal to formal, from academic to more creative types of writing, and we have been working through the writing process from brainstorming to drafting to revising and editing.

This method is used to increase your writing fluency and get more practice at being able to use writing to generate ideas quickly and clearly  -- like anything else, the more you do it, the easier it gets. Soon, we will begin to choose some pieces and work more intensely on the revision process in order to focus on polishing our work. That will also involve some sharpening of our grammar skills, but grammar is only one component of revision. 

In the meantime, keep blogging. Regular blog post writing makes the essay writing process less daunting because the two are not really that different!  

Quote of the Week -- Week 3 and 4

"Belief and reader absorption come in the details.”  —Stephen King

This week, we are working on writing and revising our description essays, and the key to successful descriptions is DETAILS! When readers read your essay, they should become absorbed into the painting, as if they were looking at it themselves.

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Quote of the Week -- Week 2

"Our lives improve only when we take chances - 
and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

End of first week -- Phew

Thanks for a great first week of classes. Just a reminder that the blogging assignment is due Saturday, and the assignment (what to write about) is on the portal under the first Topic of the course.

Quote of the Week -- Week 1

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty" -- Maya Angelou