Reflections on the Process
happy birthday, blog
On Thursday my blog turns two years old. I can’t believe that it’s been that long since I first started. I have over 470 posts and pages, which is a lot of writing and/or linking I’ve been doing over two years, and I feel pretty good about it.
How coincidental that the same week my blog [...]
processive?
I assume most people have noticed that the things/activities/events valued most in our society are those that can be labeled “productive,” usually ones that have an obvoius, tangible outcome. I’m wondering if we can’t come up with a word that can be valued as much as productive, but that values process over product. At first [...]
on what a “knowledge log” should be
After writing my seminar paper for English 595 (on k-logs), I am left reflecting on what a knowledge log should be. A lot of my posts were simply remediating note cards, serving as a place to keep quotes and paraphrases as well as citations. I think this is a huge advantage of blogs - this [...]
reflection on my audience
When I normally do research and then do brainstorming/freewriting/prewriting for a paper, I have a sole audience in mind: me. However, my last entry was a brainstorming/prewriting activity that was geared not just toward an audience of me, but to a larger audience. I felt like I was no longer writing to just formulate my [...]
