1. Architecture Influences Experience

2. Can You Feel the Rhythm? Everyday Life What Kind of Story Are You Trying To Tell? Cinderella Story Samuel Beckett PlayRedemption Story

3. hint: it’s a mystery

4. The Mystery Story Investigation of questions Development of hypotheses (thesis) Testing of hypotheses Asking of new questions Choosing a topic Asking questions, finding answers Brainstorming, outlining, planning Major discoveries or decisions Synthesis of what has been learned Re-assessment of prior understandings Final analysis: What does it all mean? What does it change? Where do I go from here?

5. The Bumps Along the Road Or: Whose Story Is This?

6. The Inescapable Need to See Patterns

7. Anticipating Your Readers Who will read your writing: You Your professor (while you’re in college); you’ boss or supervisor when you’re in the workplace Your friends Your family Strangers who don’t have a clue who you are or how you sound in person (if you blog, etc.) Does each group read or hear the material the same way?