Comments on: The Residency http://fluidimagination.com/blog/2008/01/11/the-residency/ Melting down disparate elements to form a new reality. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:22:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: dana http://fluidimagination.com/blog/2008/01/11/the-residency/#comment-39576 dana Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:13:23 +0000 http://fluidimagination.com/blog/2008/01/11/the-residency/#comment-39576 Enjoyed the edits! Am glad to see this new direction. This dramatic pacing. These short sentences. Telling the story without tripping over needless words. I think I'm gonna like the chapters written under Rebecca's thoughtful guidance. Don't fret the teaching practicum paper. One wise scholar who came before me advised me to keep a running journal of each class. I was faithful to that process about two-thirds of the time. Those pages really came in handy when writing about the beginning of the semester in my paper. In my final paper I also included a student's monologue that ran about a page long. Aside from the obvious length benefit, I felt that his answer to my assignment so poignantly illustrated my point, that it was a necessary addition to the paper. I was right; it was one of the few assignments in my own Goddard career that I did NOT have to rewrite. Writing ten annotations this semester: does that mean you have left five for the G-4 semester? I was advised MANY times to leave at least five for the final semester as my advisor would require five even if I had hit that magic mark of 45 annotations by the semester's start. Of course, as you have already discovered, each advisor is different, so perhaps you've already worked this one out.... Good luck to you and Dawn. I picture her playing many hours of guitar hero (headphones on, perhaps?) as you write, write, write.... Dawn: you're always welcome to come hang out with us in New Hampshire if you need a break from the writing maniac! Oh, and happy belated birthday, too. Rock on! --dana Enjoyed the edits! Am glad to see this new direction. This dramatic pacing. These short sentences. Telling the story without tripping over needless words. I think I’m gonna like the chapters written under Rebecca’s thoughtful guidance.

Don’t fret the teaching practicum paper. One wise scholar who came before me advised me to keep a running journal of each class. I was faithful to that process about two-thirds of the time. Those pages really came in handy when writing about the beginning of the semester in my paper.

In my final paper I also included a student’s monologue that ran about a page long. Aside from the obvious length benefit, I felt that his answer to my assignment so poignantly illustrated my point, that it was a necessary addition to the paper. I was right; it was one of the few assignments in my own Goddard career that I did NOT have to rewrite.

Writing ten annotations this semester: does that mean you have left five for the G-4 semester? I was advised MANY times to leave at least five for the final semester as my advisor would require five even if I had hit that magic mark of 45 annotations by the semester’s start. Of course, as you have already discovered, each advisor is different, so perhaps you’ve already worked this one out….

Good luck to you and Dawn. I picture her playing many hours of guitar hero (headphones on, perhaps?) as you write, write, write…. Dawn: you’re always welcome to come hang out with us in New Hampshire if you need a break from the writing maniac! Oh, and happy belated birthday, too.

Rock on!

–dana

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