Portfolio

Hello Students,

Please note that the deadline for each of you to turn in the Portfolio is on Wednesday, Dec 8th, from 10 am till 4 pm. I will be in my office @ COAS 245 during the time period.

The Portfolio will include:

1. Project I - 2 times revision on the same copy

1st revision: highlight the changes you made after my 1st time giving comments).
2nd revision: (underline the new changes after my 2nd time giving comment).

2. Project II: Each of you need to print out 2 copies of Project II

1st copy: Your 1st complete Draft with my comments
2nd copy: Your revised Draft highlighting the changes you made when working on my comments

3. Cover Letter

Please put them all in a Folder, label the Folder:

Portfolio
Student's name:
Instructor's name:
Class
Date

Let me know if you have questions

TP

Cover Letter

Hello Students,

Good job on the presentations you all gave today and especially the excitement you showed on the discussion part during and after every presentation. That's such a good trait that I hope you will reinforce in your ENG 1302 class.

There's no time left for me to go through it in class, so please read Description of Project IV and write the Cover letter. Please focus on the questions (they will help you construct your paper). This will be an essay so I am not recommending you to use the Question-Answer format. Write it naturally. Make it flow smooth!!!

Please email me if you have questions!!!

Have a nice rest of the week

See you all again on Monday in the LAB 2. 146. Please come on time.

LAB classes

Hi Students,

From now till the end of the semester we will have the following LAB classes:

Nov 22 : LAB 2. 146

Nov 24: LAB 2. 120

Dec 1: LAB 2. 120

Dec 6: LAB 2. 146

I will be in the classroom today and walk with you all to the LAB. Those who read this before 2:35 can just go to LAB 2. 146 by yourself.

See you.

ATTENTION!!!!

Hi all,

Following are some important issues that I would ask for your attention and action:

1. We will have LAB classes again next week on Nov 15 (LAB 2. 164) and Nov 17 (LAB 2. 148). Please be on time and bring your works (Research Proposal, articles, etc...) to class to go on.

2. I would need you all to give me another hard copy of project I where you highlight the changes based on my comments so that I can focus on your revision. This requirement has been mentioned before, however; only a few of you highlighted the changes. I will collect the highlighted revision ones next Monday, Nov 15.

Let me know if you have any questions.

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Darryl Wolf

English

Trang Phann

10/27/10

Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience Author(s): Peter Elbow Source: College English, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Jan., 1987), pp. 50-69

Summary:

This article is about the benefits of ignoring the audience as you write, allowing you to create a train of thought which will let your ideas to flow freely. It also explains that this concept can prevent writers block which is an indeed predicament that I personally encounter from time to time. Also I’ve learned that when the writer envisions the audience they get intimidated from the pressure and thus making it difficult to get his or her point across; not only that but as clearly as possible. Also we could benefit from our audience, doing so will reveal that the writer would have put more consideration to be benefited and possibly have an out come on a mutual basis. Putting ease for the reader as they accumulate the writer’s viewpoint. Which is why I have somewhat of a mutual answer for my question.

Question:

Is it good to ignore the audience? Which do you prefer writer or reader base prose?

I would like to be able to free my mind when I begin to write. Personally I believe that this could go both ways. Thinking outside the “box” and developing a direction other than your own could indeed benefit you. Without limiting your train of thought you could somewhat ignore the audience so you won’t feel pressured and delayed in your writing. Doing so would eliminate the causatum of a writer’s block and allow for ideas to flow and as well expand into deeper segments. However with no guidelines the writer may go off topic and elaborate too much. It all depends how you see this strategies and entwine with your analysis. I prefer both writer and reader base prose because I can benefit with the two. I like how writer base prose focuses on the individual and it doesn’t matter if the readers may not understand the context. As well as, writer base prose is more of an adequate approach for themselves but lets the writer formulate with anything they feel serene. Their acquisitions way become all-out biased in a way but reader base focuses with the reader; by making sure they understand what the writer is trying to come across.

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Monica Torres

Eng. Comp

Trang Phann

10/23/10

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Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience Author(s): Peter Elbow Source: College English, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Jan., 1987), pp. 50-69

Summary: The article “Closing My Eyes as I Speak” talks about benefits on ignoring the audience and how writers can improve their essays or writing. Elbow says that ignoring the audience can prevent writers block. He also says that when it comes to an audience we tend to get intimidated and make it hard on ourselves to go get our point across. He also says that sometimes our audience can help us, when we do think about the audience we think a lot more and of better things to say. This article has a lot of different views on writing and what will help you the most. Piagetian says that we should start out by being private and as we grow up we will become more social and will be able to write and talk more efficiently, while Vygotskian says we should start out social and then when we become older it will be easier to voice ourselves. There are also different views about writer base prose and reader base prose. One claims that it is best to use one than the other and vice versa. Reader base prose focuses on the reader and helps the reader fully understand, while writer base prose does the opposite. It’s all about the writing and it allows the writer to write about anything, it is all clear to the writer.

Q: Is it good to ignore the audience? Which do you prefer writer or reader base prose?

Answer: I personally think it is best to ignore the audience because I tend to freak out in front of them. I get embarrassed and forget what I’m talking about and I get off track from what I’m talking about. If I were to ignore them I think I would do a lot better because I wouldn’t feel so pressured and awkward in front of them. I prefer both writer and reader base prose because I can benefit from both. I like that writer base prose focuses on me and it doesn’t matter if the readers understand it. Writer base prose lets the writer talk or writer about anything the feel comfortable writing about, the can add as much detail as they want and it all makes sense to them. On the other hand, reader base focuses on the reader by making sure the reader understand what it is the writer is talking about.

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Brie Fenton Yesenia Ontiveros

ENG 1301.28

Trang Phan

oct. 20, 2010


Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience

Elbow, Peter. "Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience." College English 49.1 (1987): 50-69. Print.

Awareness of the audience can often cause incomplete thoughts and unclear writing. Elbow argues that if we ignore the audience we will end up with better writing in the end. It starts out weak but leads to better revisions. There are two different types of audiences: enabling and inhibiting. Enabling audiences cause us to think of better and more coherent things as we write and our piece turns out structured. We come up with ideas we did not know we had and we feel smart. It is helpful to keep these audiences in mind from the start. Inhibiting audiences block our writing. We feel dumb and can’t find our words or thoughts. When they are no longer pressuring us, all our thoughts come rushing back.
If we are constantly aware of the audience, were only thinking about how they will criticize our writing, we are not focusing. During the first stages of writing, if we ignore the audience, our words will be more true and clear. Teaching students how to realize when audience awareness is getting in their way, will help avoid overload and stressing. We can manipulate our thoughts and end up with better, developed writing than we would have had in the first place. Ignoring the audiences leads to stronger, more expressive and descriptive writing.

Question
The author says: “when attention to audience causes an overload, start out by ignoring them while you attend to your thinking; after you work out your thinking, turn your attention to audience” (p.53). How could you know when it’s overloaded?
Response
Many people have arguments about ignoring the audience. This method doesn’t not mean that you as the speaker have to block out the audience. In the article it mentions that when you feel over load to just ignore the audience. I really don’t think the author meant this as in were we forget about them and make no eye contact to them. The word “overload” I interpretation is; when we as the speaker feel nervous, and tempts to forget the subject. But the author ( Peter Elbow) of “ Closing My Eyes as I Speak” is intentions were not to tell us to ignore our audience but to not pay as much attention. I as the writer I tend to get nervous when I speak in front of a audience, what I do is tend to ignore the audience by simply not looking at them in the eyes, and think about something else. I also try not to memorize a speech because I tend to forget it.