Tonight's class was mostly focused on preparing for the rhetorical analysis assignment. We reviewed the assignment sheet (posted to the right) and conducted an analysis of Brevity.
The first request on the assignment sheet is for you to talk about "what kind of" CNF the journal publishes. We generated a list of categories for the different kinds of CNF we have read this term. Some of the "kinds" of publications we identified include the following.
- personal essays (essay-y writing with the focus on self, like Lopate and The Patch, lots of analysis the point either embedded in the analysis or stated straight out)
- cultural/political essays
- Journalistic pieces
- long or short essays
- classifications by topic/focus
- preferences for particular forms (narrative, experimental, reflective, multimodal/visual, etc)
- location based (may be about a place, or sometimes only writers from a particular geographical region are accepted)
- special interest (travel, horticulture, war, motherhood stories, religious)
- student publications
We then conducted an analysis of just 3 of the stories from Brevity, in terms of the categories listed on the sheet and came up with the following.
Ordinary shoes: (noticed = woman author, woman characters, mostly women commenters)
Subject: realization, mother/daughter
Voice/tone: reflective, somber, nostalgic
Form: personal essay, traditional, memoir (though she does skate with the mother in the photograph)
artistry/literariness: 3
27
subject: coming of age
voice: objective, descriptive
form: poetic, literary
artistry: 4
Cake
subject: forbidden self fullfillment
voice: intimate
form: narratve/reflective
artistry: up there
If you haven't chosen a journal yet - send me an email and I will add your choice to the list.
Journal Choices:
Briana Literal Latte
Christina Defunct
Cristal vela
Florie The Normal School
Holly Sweet
Mary Ellen The Collagist
Matt Gul Coast
Melissa Creative Nonfiction
Osza Paper Darts
Patrice Terrain
Patricia Zone3
Stephanie The Pinch
Read: Zion, 402+ On writing Zion, 410 by Stanton, Pope, Teacher training, 388, Composing 'Teacher training'" 394.
Blog 12: Short essay 2 brainstorming
As discussed in class, next week we will start with some talk about writing "process" essays or craft essays as they call them in CNF. These readings are to give you an approximate model for the reflective introduction to the portfolio assignment. After that, the rest of the class will be workshop, with conferences on the short essay scheduled in class. During this class, you will have an opportunity to work on the draft short essay 2, the portfolio introduction, or the rhetorical analysis presentation.
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