National Day of Writing

The Open Mic for ENG 4070/5070 was a great success! Thank you for your participation, and if you like, I will look into reserving a warmer space for a second reading at the end of the term. I enjoyed every reading - and was greatly impressed by the quality of thinking and revising just since our conferences of a week ago.

Keep writing into your second "I" essay and post as far as you've written for Monday. We will sechedule conferences - and then you will make some decisions about submitting your first "finished" piece.

Meanwhile, in class we will start to talk about "eye" essay - which as we've discussed in class are more "objective" or journalistic. At the same time, they are still and inescapably focused through the lens of the writer's sensibility. The difference is one of balance and focus = in an "eye" essay the "revellation" or "discovery" is directed more toward external facts and interpretations than internal ones.

For Monday,

Read: Orlean, 52

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