- sensual representations : that visual features are most frequently referenced. Many writers have long noted this as a fact, and have suggested that resort to other sensual features - smell, touch, sound => can often be more intensely evocative.
- comparisons/metaphors = often used to connect to a more vivid or familiar object that will evoke what you describe.
- cultural references often function to identify an audience (place readers as insiders or outsiders with respect to the author's perspective on the object)
- personifications/animations like comparisons/metaphors, often evoke more intense, fully realized connections from readers
- close-in versus far-back perspectives demand differing amounts of interpretive "work" from the reader; such "description" is accompanied by clear or explicit interpretation (close-in - as in Final Cut and Neiha's description of Alyson's boots = where we are told the "point" of the description) or left for the reader to figure out and apply (as in Marvin Gardens + Ashley's description= lots of detail but the reader needs to do more work to put the details together to create an interpretation)
Class for next week.
On Tuesday, November 1, you may schedule (optional) conferences on the essay of your choice.
We will meet on November 3 to workshop Essay 3, brainstorm for Essay 4 and otherwise discuss how your writing is going.
Blog 15 (for Tuesday): Description. Write a far-back description (without explicit references to what the description is meant to "show". A perfect example would be James description of his I-phone. It contrasted the sleek, highly engineered "beauty" of the phone with the real-world evidence of what happens to our machines in use.
Blog 16 (for Thursday): Post draft essay 3.
On Thursday you will sign up for conferences for essay 3, and we will use class November 8 as part of the available conference time (we will not meet in the classroom).
Have a good weekend.
Blog 15 (for Tuesday): Description. Write a far-back description (without explicit references to what the description is meant to "show". A perfect example would be James description of his I-phone. It contrasted the sleek, highly engineered "beauty" of the phone with the real-world evidence of what happens to our machines in use.
Blog 16 (for Thursday): Post draft essay 3.
On Thursday you will sign up for conferences for essay 3, and we will use class November 8 as part of the available conference time (we will not meet in the classroom).
Have a good weekend.
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