Month: April 2019

They Say I Say Chapter 14:

In chapter 14 the author introduces a thesis finding activity, after the students find what the author means it is now their turn to say what they want to. At first the discussion was drawn out and felt forced.  To combat this they gave students different questions like “whats the authors point of view” or “do you agree with what the author is saying etc. When they used these more specific questions the discussions flourished.  I read this chapter because I felt as though some of my quote analysis was weak and it needed strengthening.

I applied this to my revision process by going back to the quotes I used in my paper and re-analyzed them, asking more specific questions. By doing this I can understand the point the quote is trying to get across and learn information about the author that will be useful in my analysis.

My goal for the revision of this paper will be to create a flowing piece of text that is easy to understand and relays the points that I am trying to make clearly. At the moment the rough draft is a little mixed up and needs more focus to become a better piece of writing. The biggest step in my revision process will be global edits and reshaping some of my ideas to make them more clear to the reader. Global edits will allow me to see the overall shape of the essay and help me reconfigure the piece to how I want it. Local edits will be done after and carry less weight. I will wait until all my ideas are in place before fixing sentence structure. The biggest challenge I run into during revision is looking to see if my writing makes since chronologically. Sometimes when writing you can slip up and put an important idea out of place, the hard part is finding out where it should really go. If I find a challenge that is too hard for me to figure out on my own I will rely on my resources like the Little Seagull or use the internet to help guide me. Overall the revision process is the most important process to make your paper into a great one.

After reading Galen Strawsons “I am not a story” it made me ponder on how narrative affects our society. Like Strawson explained in America we have a “universal narrative” that everyone should follow. Go to school get a successful job and work until you can retire. For a long time our society was locked into this “universal narrative” and it started to change just recently that the narrative has become more open and broad. It is now becoming the norm to do whatever makes you happy in your life.

Telling your personal narrative is an important experience that all should take part in. It relieves stress and creates stronger connections between you and your audience.  I disagree with Strawson viewpoint on self narration. He believe that not all self narration is good for you, and how there is a split between the narrative and the non. It is interesting to think that some people don’t want to share their story or stories in general. I think that our language would be a little dry if stories weren’t told.