tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129182672516318224.post5936641868642401511..comments2008-08-01T23:55:41.381-04:00Comments on Re/Search, Translation, Work: Process Discussions ElsewhereHowdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129182672516318224.post-90200221138328329022008-03-28T15:02:00.000-04:002008-03-28T15:02:00.000-04:00For years I hadnoticed that a lot of students feel...For years I had<BR/>noticed that a lot of students feel disenfranchised with workshops for<BR/>various reasons. Some didn't feel engaged or challenged for weeks at<BR/>a time, until their turn to be "workshopped" comes up. Some<BR/>questioned the merit of a pedogogy that routinely puts students on the<BR/>defensive. Some were frustrated by the poor reading skills of their<BR/>peers, the dubious motives of some of the critiques, the lack of a<BR/>shared terminology. <BR/><BR/>First, I discovered the five canons of rhetoric, which<BR/>sort of function as the backbone for composition studies and for<BR/>classical rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and<BR/>delivery. I thought that these could easily be applied to poetry<BR/>writing instruction, and, after scratching beneath the surface, I<BR/>discovered that they were in fact applied to poetry writing<BR/>instruction prior to the entrenchment of the workshop model in the<BR/>1930s. <BR/><BR/>Briefly, invention is about strategies for starting poems, strategies<BR/>for revising poems, strategies for considering audience, and<BR/>strategies for considering/constructing writing personae; arrangement<BR/>is about the study of prosody and traditional versification, different<BR/>approaches to free verse, line breaks, stanza breaks, and ways of<BR/>going about arranging poems into manuscripts; style is about<BR/>imitation/emulation of models, study of tropes and figures, and issues<BR/>such as tone, voice, diction, syntax, and clarity; memory is about<BR/>memorizing poetry, ways to write memorable poetry, and ways to draw on<BR/>memories while writing poetry; delivery is about ways to perform poems<BR/>out loud, selection of font, hypertext poetry, and so on. Teachers<BR/>who use this model reverse what normally happens in and out of class;<BR/>students work on generating and revising poems in class, and they<BR/>critique each other outside of class, as homework. <BR/><BR/>Tom C. HunleyHowdyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200noreply@blogger.com