Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Three sources for my paper.

1. In the Group Home: Disenfranchised Youth and the Creative Writing Workshop as Intervention
2. Theory, Culture, and Craft
3.“That’s My Boy”: Challenging the Myth of Literary Mentorship as In Loco Patris

All three sources are analyze about how creative writing class works. They are journals for people who don't know much about creative writing and the students who have interests but not decided if they want to study this major. These sources have good points, strong evidence and appropriate citations. So I think these sources could be academic sources to help my paper.

Way to use:
The first source focus on how creative writing class helps young writers, why this form of discussion works. The second source analyzed a great piece in France perspective as a writer. The third source is talking about why mentor in creative writing class is so important.
Based on these three sources, I'd like to write a paper from a new foreign student who really love writing but first know there's creative writing major exist in this world. And I actually want to interview Jianan Qian, who is come from China and just graduated from Iowa Writer's Workshop. In this paper, I may introduce workshop in creative writing class, show why and how this kind of discussion is helpful, what kind of roles both students and instructors play during the workshop. Also when I mentioned Jianan's experience, the second source must be very helpful, because my interviewee and this source are both understanding American literature as a foreigner.

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

My understanding for Analytical Report

In this assignment, we are asked to choose a field, then find someone who is good (at least more profession than us) in this area to have an interview, focusing on a type of writing that only people who in this field or career would write. During this interview, we also need to find six sources, including three academic and three non-academic writings to analyze. I’ve wrote a source analyze in a history class. I find the similarity between this assignment and source analyze, which is that I need to find some useful information and understand the information from other people. But the difference is that I don’t need to cite sources from other books or passages in history source analyze, though in this assignment, I need to use six outside sources to prove that I truly understand the technique of writing in the field I chose.

Monday, August 20, 2018

Welcome to Miranssa's Blog. 欢迎来到别家的神秘领域。

突然发现这里或许是一个存放灵感的好地方,毕竟能进来看的大概率不懂中文。
Again, welcome to my blog!

After searching the definition online and reading few examples, I think Rhetoric is the ability to use the appropriate language to persuade others in certain situation.
Example.
When my roommate used my pen very often and didn't seem to give the pen back to me, I said, "Sorry, I should bring more pens if I know how much you like it. So I can give you some as a gift."

或许修辞学的用处比我想象中还要大,试图用最具有说服力的语言去讲述一个事情,正是小说中非常需要的一个技能。
希望我能够在这门课里学到意料之外的惊喜的能力。