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

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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?
IUPUI? IUPUI?
Part of final grade
Time is given in writing sessions

7. 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???

8. 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
IUPUI? IUPUI?
Multiple drafts are produced
Final draft is often entirely different from first

9. The Writing Process
Draft
Explore perspective – angles of vision

10. "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?

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

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