On Writing: Recent Episodes
S.Dennison
A podcast about becoming a mindful reader, writer, and researcher. A place to grow and change as a communicator and collaborator. Feel free to read the transcript of this podcast as you listen, move around, or go outside. “Each episode will cover a key topic about developing your skills as engineer of language and as a participant in a complex global discourse. Hello and welcome, I am Ms. Dee. Thank you for joining me. Now, let’s dive in.
Welcome to this episode: The Anatomy of Fiction: What Makes a Story Move?
Today we’ll cover 5 things. The first is about learning to read like a writer. The second is about the general anatomy of fiction and its traditional elements. The third, is about the other things we can do to make our stories come alive. The fourth is about the shapes our stories take. And we’ll close with some sage advice from Kurt Vonnegut.
Link to Mike Bunn's How to Read Like a Writer
Link to my "What Makes a Story Move? Heuristic scroll down to On Writing Section
Link to Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago
Today, we’ll cover a few topics. But before we get started, rest assured that notes and transcripts for this audio are included in the course materials for this session. So, if like, please take a walk, stretch, or move your body as you listen to this podcast. In today’s episode we’ll cover 2 things. In the first, we’ll talk a little more about mindful observation as the foundation of critical thinking and offer up the first 10 steps to reading and responding to difficult texts.
Reference Text
A Writers Guide to Mindful Reading written by Ellen Carillo and published throughthe WAC Clearinghouse
Text available here: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/practice/mindful/
In today’s episode we’ll cover 2 things. In the first, we’ll define rhetorical analysis as a process of critical thinking the next is to explore the rhetorical situation and how a better understanding of it improves our ability to observe well.
Episode 1: Common Misconceptions about Writing, Why We Should Write, and 5 Tips to Getting Better at it