Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Didion, Why I Write (Kevin)
Joan Didion's, "Why I Write," was a lot easier to read than last weeks reading, and that is something I really needed this week while studying for all my exams on Thursday and working on my final draft for this class. One thing I really liked about this reading was that Didion did not call her self a "good" or "bad" writer. That is smart because she can not actually judge her self as a writer, it all depends on who is reading her writing. One person may think her writing are amazing, other may find them horrible. Take our blog posts for example, after I write one I don't sit there and say, "Wow! Thats a good post." I look at it and say to myself, "I hope Phil doesn't leave a bad comment on my post." Also now that were going over learning styles i would have to say that Didion's learning style is very visual. The reason why I think this is because she talks about how she see the "shimmer" that you can only see if you are a schizophrenic or if you are on hallucinogens. She also talk about having images in her head when she began the novel, "A Book of Common Prayer." Now I do not know my learning style yet, because of the problems with the website. But I do know Didion is a very visual learner and I think I may be somewhere close to that.
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Sometimes, you may actually be able to be objective about your own writing - but not usually. Writing, as you and Didion point out, is fundamentally reader-based - our audience tends to have a great effect on what/how we write.
ReplyDeleteGood work relating Didion to the Learning Styles - she is clearly a visual person.
You're right about being able to be objective to your own writing. I forgot to add for when you are writing a paper, like the one we just wrote, you can be objective and say that the final draft is better than the first draft.
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