I really related to Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts.” My first draft took me ages to write. I hated every sentence I wrote, hated the theme I picked, and could not think of a way to close the whole paper. I was overwhelmed, frustrated, and pretty done with the whole writing process. Lamott described not … [Read more…]
One thing I learned during my first stage of peer review was that your essay needs to connect back to the thesis or it will leave your audience confused. The order of how you overview things should match the order you present them in your essay to make it flow nicely.
So for my brainstorming session I went through my annotations and previous blog posts to find the most important ideas from both “Is it OK to Make Art? by Rhys Southan and “Can Art Amend History?” by Titus Kaphar. While I was doing this, I noticed some areas that overlapped and some that contradicted each … [Read more…]
I chose to listen to Titus Kaphar’s “How We Can Address Centuries of Racism in Art?” as my first source for the paper that we will be writing in conversation with Rhys Southan’s “Is Art a Waste of Time?” Kaphar’s TED talk starts with the scene of him and his sons at the Natural History … [Read more…]
I was pleasantly surprised by how much my experience had changed since I did my first reading. I had a more “vocal” conversation with the text. While I was reading the beginning of the article for the second time, I would remember something that I had read further on during the first reading. This allowed … [Read more…]
The article “Is it OK to make art?” was a very challenging and dreary piece of literature to read. In a sense, I do understand where the Effective Altruism is coming from. However, their rigid rules and disapproving opinions may turn away those who could have helped the world in someway, somehow. The world is … [Read more…]
My first impression of the ePortfolio was a very skeptical one. I have never been the best at creative writing or writing things quickly, so I am a little intimidated by the initiative. I like the structure that comes along with writing formal essays so one potential challenge I might face with writing a blog … [Read more…]
