Welcome! Let’s get started… On the card given by your instructor, please respond to the following: What are your concerns about college writing?

Summer Bridge Writing Session #1/3 Writing Instructors: Harrell & Frye

The “starting” point: where’s the I N S P I R A T I O N ? In college writing, you’ll start with something that prompts you to investigate further – or something to which you’ll respond. Sometimes your “jumping off point” will be provided for you: a chapter in a textbook, an article in an academic journal, an electronic source, an interview, or even an image.

What is YOUR writing process? Using the tablet provided – what is your process? “Writing…Thinking…Learning – They’re all the same process.”

The Writing Process Pre-Writing Publish Draft Feedback Faculty Feedback Edit Revise

Pre-Writing Entry Level Writing Courses @ IUPUI WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? Explore ideas Explore old vs. new What do you BRING to this exploration? What new information has been added to your prior knowledge? HOW @ IUPUI? HOW @ IUPUI? Part of final grade Time is given in writing sessions

Writing is *thinking* on paper So, let’s say your writing professor gives you this image… Take a couple of minutes to pre-write on it. What’s the meaning of this image? Which writing prompt did we decide on? How do we follow up to this exercise later???

Draft The Writing Process WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? Need more reasons here for drafting WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? Explore perspective – angles of vision HOW @ IUPUI? HOW @ IUPUI? Multiple drafts are produced Final draft is often entirely different from first

The Writing Process Draft Explore perspective – angles of vision

"I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much.” ~Anne Lamott Which writing prompt did we decide on?

Feedback The Writing Process WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? Breaks out of isolation Provides new / continued direction HOW @ IUPUI? HOW @ IUPUI? You give others Others give you Peers, writing center, and professor See feedback handout - possibility Feedback

Revise The Writing Process Reconsider arguments Review evidence WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY Reconsider arguments Review evidence Refine purpose Reorganize Clarity HOW @ IUPUI? HOW @ IUPUI? Not just recommended REQUIRED Revise

The Writing Process Interviewer: How much rewriting do you do? Hemingway: It depends. I rewrote the ending of Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, 39 times before I was satisfied. Interviewer: Was there some technical problem there? What was it that had you stumped? Hemingway: Getting the words right.

How was your writing assessed in high school? “Becoming a writer is becoming conscious.” ~Anne Lamott

Entry Level Writing Courses @ IUPUI Based upon your entire writing process, not just the final product. Perhaps hand out “A” portfolio rubric?

Reflection What information have you heard that might challenge you? Why/ How? What will you do to tackle this challenge?