I chose to read Chapter 11 of “They Say/I Say”, titled “Using the Templates to Revise”. This chapter discusses how to put all aspects of the chapters before into your essay when thinking about the process of revision. It offers a checklist-like approach using the central idea from each chapter before to pose questions making sure you’ve incorporated every aspect into your paper. For example one of the topic questions is “Have you introduced any naysayers?”. This is to make…
Revision Strategy: My goals for revision is to incorporate my peer’s revisions into my final essay and use their suggestions to revise my essays. Another goal is to thoroughly go through my rough draft and find what needs to be changed, what can stay, what needs to be moved, etc. To accomplish my goals I will read through my peer’s comments, pick out which ones I believe will help, and then find ways to incorporate those suggestions into my writing….
Free write (15 min) When I initially read Galen Strawson’s article “I am not a story” I didn’t know whether to agree with his idea that narratives do not shape who we are or not. He brought up some valid points that I might agree with individually, but as a whole, I lean towards disagreeing with him. He brings up several compelling points throughout his essay. For example, he mentions that we are made up of many selves, not just one….
Julie Beck explores how seeing our lives as narratives can actually affect us and our wellbeings. There were a few moments that made me sit up straighter, grabbed my attention, and pulled me back into the text. One of these instances was when she talked about how different ages affect our storytelling or the way we see things. When we are young adults still trying to navigate the world we often speak about the changes in our lives because it…
