MEANING-MAKING PROCESSES (RESOURCES)
I invite you to review these texts so you can enter into a conversation with others about the ways we use language and social interactions to make meaning. In seen and unseen ways, these texts inform how we will compose and construct knowledge in our course.
- Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray)
- Writing Down the Bones: Feeling the Writer Within (Natalie Goldberg)
- Freewriting Exercises (Peter Elbow)
- Making a Scene (Lee Martin)
- To You, I Belong (Becky Thompson)
- Miss Jane: Otherworldly Birds (Brad Watson)
- Why I Write: George Orwell's Four Universal Motives [...]
- Why I Write (Joan Didion)
- How Can You Create Fiction When Reality Comes to Call (Carolyn Chute)
- Hemingway's Advice on Writing [...] (Maria Popova)
- 6 Ways to be a Hemingway-Level Productive Badass (Drake Baer)
- The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova)
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life | pp. 28 -34 | Short Assignments & Shitty First Drafts (Anne Lamott)
- Zen in the Art of Writing (Ray Bradbury)
- Against Vanity: In Praise of Revision (Mary Karr)
- The Myth of Creative Inspiration
- Glen Gould in Rapture (The 'Flow State') / Punch the Keys! (Finding Forrester)
- 12 Essential Ted Talks for College Writers
- Why You Need to Fail (Derek Sivers, TED Talk)
- The Power of Believing You Can Improve (Carol Dweck, TED Talk)
- The Power of Belief -- Mindset and Success (Eduardo Briceno, TED Talk)
- When Students Feel They Belong, They Thrive
- Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset
- Neuroplasticity
- Banking Concept of Education
- Collaborative Learning and the "Conversation of Mankind" (Kenneth Bruffee)
- What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee)
- What is Literacy? (Danielle Park, Prezi Summary)
- Lev Vygotsky's Cognitive Development Theory and the Benefits of Play
- Jerome Bruner's Theory of Education: From Early Bruner to Late Bruner (Keiichi Takaya)
- The Narrative Construction of Reality (Jerome Bruner)
- Life as Story -- Self as Text (Ingrida Vaňková)
- A Guided Meditation
- What is WOOP?
- WOOP Steps
- WOOP App
- Self-Assessment, Action Plan, Future Scenes