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April 03, 2005
tj 308: week 10
molly's got the class working on something simple, but simply brilliant: they've picked a piece of their own writing, pre-existing, created for some other purpose, brought it in one day last week to talk about in groups to generate lists of stylistic observations about it, & are now working on writing what she's calling "museum cards" for the pieces.
museum cards are 250-word descriptions of the piece that do what cards on the walls beside paintings at an art museum do--give a sentence or two of contextual introduction and then tell visitors what the highlights are of the piece, what to pay special attention to, what the author's intentions were & how to seem them evinced by what he/she has written (in the uncomfortable but jarringly awareness-provoking 3rd person).
simple--short, evaluative, reflective, analytical--simply brilliant.
Posted by ttobryan at April 3, 2005 08:34 PM