For those of you who have taken part in cross-cultural writing programs:
1. What was your cross-cultural writing experience like?
2. How have these assignments shaped and influenced you as a writer? As a student? As an individual?
3. Would you recommend the implementation of these types of programs into the classroom? Why, or why not?
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"Students participate in a 'new community of critical and creative discourse. This community, whose conventions are not yet formed, can only be defined by a confluence of literature, composition, and technology.'” -Stuart Moulthrop and Nancy Kaplan, “Something To Imagine: Literature, Composition, and Interactive Fiction.”
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Hey! Welcome to my very first blogspot! Within this forum, I hope to provide you with a thorough analysis of the benefits of integrating cross-cultural writing assignments into the classroom!
"Students participate in a 'new community of critical and creative discourse. This community, whose conventions are not yet formed, can only be defined by a confluence of literature, composition, and technology.'” -Stuart Moulthrop and Nancy Kaplan, “Something To Imagine: Literature, Composition, and Interactive Fiction.”
Sample Cross-Cultural Program
"Creative writing is one important way to wake in a student a pleasure in the very language, a sense of exploring his own activity...The...function of written language becomes important when individuals attempt to relate new knowledge to their value systems." -Dr. Art Young
"Writing to learn is different. We write to ourselves as well as talk with others to objectify our perceptions of reality; the primary function of this expressive language is not to communicate, but to order and represent experience to our own understanding. In this sense language provides us with a unique way of knowing and becomes a tool for discovering, for shaping meaning, and for teaching understanding. For many writers this kind of speculative writing takes place in notebooks and journals; often it is first-draft writing, necessary before more formal finished writing can be done." -Fulwiler and Young
Blog Archive
"As teachers, we seek to provide these inexperienced [writers] with writing taks that are unpredictable--tasks that keep writers off balance, that shot off the automatic pilot." -Dr. Art Young
Poetry References
About Me
- MELODY
- I am currently a graduate student at Clemson University and am enrolled in English 885 under Dr. Cynthia Haynes. This blogspot has been developed not only to fulfill a class project requirement but also to serve as a spot of reference for those curious about cross-cultural writing.
4 comments:
I really enjoyed the cross-cultural assignment that we had with Sweden students concerning Emily Dickinson's poetry. It's not very often that we, as students, are given a unique chance to communicate and analyze poetry with other students, especially those in a different culture. It was a very rich experience, and one that I will consider using in my own classroom someday.
The cross-cultural blog we engaged in in English 814 was a unique asset to our class. Not only did it give us the oppurtunity to discuss literature with students from a different country, but it enlightened our perspective on literature and writing about literature. Likewise, the context in which we discussed--an electronic blog--gives one the freedom to be both objective and subjective at the same time. I would certainly recommend a blog like this for any student of literature and/or writing.
Learning cross-culturally benefits both students and instructors. Dr. Young's class provided an opportunity to discuss poetry with students that I would not otherwise know. The experience was enlightening and helped in my understanding of ED's poetry. I would imagine instructors like the cross-cultural blogging for some of the same reasons. Whenever two cultures come together in a peaceful manner, the world is a better place. I hope to use this same type of format with my own students someday.
I really liked the cross cultural blog exercise in ENGL 814. It was a unique opportunity to engage in a conversation about poetry with students from a different part of the world. I really enjoyed the experience because we were given a chance to see these poems, which we are for the most part familiar with, from a different perspective. I thought the questions we were asked to consider in our writing, lent themselves to opening up the topic to everyone (even those whose first language is not English). I would totally try this in one of my classes, because it is a good way to learn, especially because everyone feels really comfortable in a casual setting, and its fun!
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