For Monday 10/13

First: I apologize for not putting this up earlier; I was fighting some food poisoning the past couple of days. 

But on with the work: 

Monday's reading for all three sections of WAR II is the same: pages 162-181 of DPC. The only question that you should be considering, and responding to in your journal, is the following: "What are your personal definitions of a scholarly pursuit and a scholarly insight, and define/explain what makes a text worthy enough to pull meaning from?"

On the Critical Encounters "Human Interaction" creative non-fiction piece:

The copy I will grade/respond to is due at the beginning of class on Monday.

To remind you on the prompt: "Write about a personal interaction you've had with either "an environment" or with a person/group of people; an interaction that then lead to some personal knowledge on human nature."  

These pieces are allowed to be super-creative. Write them with the intention of both engaging the experience, but also try to make the read enjoyable for your audience.

- use your own metaphors

-write from specific personal experiences. Replay what happened, not just the meaning, but the action.

- use stronger verbs / get rid of stale language

- just write about experience; try to rid language of preface material. 

- in other words, don't write it like a science report . . . unless you want to structure it as such for entertainment value!

- take a risk in your viewpoint or language, or both. I've already heard some beautiful responses.