I love that he likens specimens of literary art to living creatures, having organic unity—indeed, having souls.
When writing, I think this is a really important concept to take in. The stories with souls last the longest. And if you don't exactly understand what that means, you know what it feels like to read a story like that. I think when I used to be really into writing, that was my overall goal, have a story that felt like something, felt real. And it was a struggle!
Once youv’ve finished reading, that motionless move- ment leaves in your mind a numinous shape of the path you traveled.
this exactly!! Once i have put down a book, i just sit there and take in everything. Because now i feel connected to the story, and since its all over, i cannot go back to it. Its like anytime you think of a book you read a while back, you can still feel how that book made YOU feel. This is such a good way to phrase it.
the part of our brain that recog- nizes words has a twin that recognizes faces,
I've actually never thought about that before! Then again, i cannot visualize anything in my head, so maybe that is why. But hearing out loud is such an interesting concept. I wonder why, in theory, our brain has to visualize each and every word on the page?
We writers go about our observing, imagining lives, moving on- ward day by day but always alert to patterns—ways in which experience shapes itself, ways we can replicate its shape with words.
I really agree with the section. I do find myself describing senerios to myself to make a full picture to myself. When i was really into writing, and wrote constantly. I used what i saw around me as scenery building, or human expression. Its truly is amazing how observing really can build these types of pictures that can motivate a scene.
In large part, this discrepancy results from our schooling. Most of us have been taught to read for ideas. Not many of us, however, have been trained to read ac-tively, to engage a writer and his or her writing, to ask why we like one piece of writing and not another.
I actually never thought about it like that, In book club in high school. I'd be drawn to some books, but others i could barely pick up. Never knew the reason why or how to explain it. Wish I was taught to actively read more then, cause then I would be more aware of it all.
Active reading is a skill that takes time to acquire. By becoming more familiar with different types of writing, you will sharpen your criti-cal thinking skills and learn how good writers make decisions in their writing.
I really do appreciate show casing beneficial reading techniques. I've always been really bad at process books, as I am dyslexic and got motion sickness reading. So, learning this type of style, like it says will take time, but i think it'll be good to have and actually make reading more enjoyable for me.
Students should not write their assignments in another program (e.g., Microsoft Word) and then copy and paste the content into Google Docs.
I might be a little silly for this question, but why is that? Does the process of copying and pasting a word document into google docs do something? Or does it make the system think it was AI? I'm genuinely curious about this one. Also glad to be using docs instead of word, word gets too glitchy after writing in it for a bit.
I will not extend grace to you if you use generative AI, and I won’t debate it with you. If I suspect you’ve used generative AI, you will receive a zero for the assignment and I will submit it to the board for academic misconduct.
This is really understandable, especially because this is a writing class about our own thoughts. Not what a robot thinks. So, i believe the harshness pushed through the syllabus to really enforce this is necessary.