Week 1 Prompt Response

To make an analogy to sports, writing is like cycling with "The Tour de Mind" sometimes you pick up your pen and the words are coming like when you are coasting down a hill and other times it is like you are struggling to get up a hill and can't get the right words out. In the end, however, with enough effort you will win this stage and go onto the next. 

Writing is like traveling to a million places, anywhere that one wishes to go but they do not have to do the actualy traveling. One can be planet Venus and the next second they can be at the bottom of the earth. Writing is an imperative creation for our imaginations to roar!!

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Writing is like being a scientist. Sometimes you can make new dicoveries just by exploring every day life just as in writing. If you look at the world around you, at things that are seemingly boring and delve under the surface you have the ability to see new things. Things that may have been there the whole time but are now in a new light and intersting. You can dicover many things when writing about youself, those around you, and the things in your every day life, just as in science.

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Writing is like applying to a college, sometimes you get rejected and other times you get accepted.

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Writing is like white water rafting because sometimes you hit a rough patch and sometimes its effortless and easy going.

Writing is like opening a new door to places that one has never been exposed to, where the imagination that one posesses can run wild and explore.



Cam Nguyen

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Writing is like uncovering dinosaurs fossils because the discoveries are still evolving, just like my writing.

very nice

i really enjoyed that Nick thanks! and answers the promt! that was a 2-fer

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Writing is like making love because you really can put emotion into it and and work really hard and make something truely magical. Or you can not put anything into or very little, satisfy yourself just a bit, and as a result the audience will dislike it.

Nick Brightwell

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To me, writing is like everyone in the world, no one written piece is the same.

Well, unless its a copy...

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Writing is like a small stream because at times you will have a constant flow of ideas like the water flowing through the stream and at other times the stream will dry up and you will be left clueless until the flow begins again.

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my writing style is like bamboo because even the stiffest of trees can crack in the wind but bamboo survives by bending with the wind. i try to stay flexible with my ideas while keeping my own style

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Writing is like soccer, because I have great days but there can always be that day I lose the gift.

Week One Blog Prompt

As discussed in class today, next week’s classes will focus on identifying your own writing process. As a lead-in to that, here is your first blogging prompt:

Come up with a simile that describes how you feel about writing, or your writing process. Then explain your simile. (A basic template for this would be as follows: “Writing is like ____________ because __________________________.”)

To get you started, here’s mine. Writing is like swimming, because I’ve gotten better and faster at it the more I’ve practiced. However, there’s always a chance when I enter the water that I’ll drown.”

Have fun with this, and try to come up with a more interesting example than mine!

Peruse the Blog for Wednesday

Hello 101ers! Before our class meeting on Wednesday, please take this opportunity to familiarize yourself with the look of our class blog (especially if you've never been to blogspot.com before.) See if you can navigate the site, try voting in the poll, and keep a list of blog-related questions you think of as you browse. Also, take a look at a few other blogs. What makes a blog visually appealing? How is content organized? Jot down any suggestions you can think of for our blog. If you're completely unfamiliar with the blogosphere and have no idea where to start, choose several from the list below:

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
http://www.designobserver.com/
http://www.indexed.blogspot.com/
http://laughingsquid.com/
http://huffingtonpost.com
http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/
http://theresalduncan.typepad.com/

Welcome to English 101!

This writing course takes its inspiration from two places. The first is a quote from American novelist Neil Gaiman: "You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it." The second is a website that suggests that the best way to deal with boredom is to dress up your dog. Throughout the semester, we'll be investigating various aspects of writing our everday lives. Where do we find the inspiration to write? How do we write about omnipresent things, things we overlook, things we've always wondered about, even things that bore us? How can we turn that inquiry inward and use it to inform our understanding of the rhetorical process?

As a class, you will develop strategies for using writing as a tool in order to explore and reflect on the world around you, your own ideas, and your individual processes for writing. You will explore beneficial ways to break the writing task into smaller steps, such as generating and organizing ideas, investigating topics, creating early drafts, seeking feedback and revising. You will also improve your ability to adapt a piece of writing to the needs of an audience or situation, and your ability to revise and edit your own writing.