Wednesday, July 1, 2009

About cut and paste

I had a thought while doing the cut and paste exercise today. Our paragraphs should have more than a linear order. They should be like a star, everything pointing to one key passage. I felt that was after reading the Murray stuff last night and I just had to drop it and go back to my paper, cut half of it out and re-do everything. I think it worked.
Posted by at

5 comments:

  1. debedgarJuly 1, 2009 at 12:29 PM

    I would like to read it and see how you changed it.

    ReplyDelete
  2. markJuly 1, 2009 at 12:32 PM

    I'd like to see this (star) essay. But no form works for every subject, every audience, or every purpose.

    ReplyDelete
  3. AnonymousJuly 1, 2009 at 12:35 PM

    I'm glad scrapping part of it worked for you. I came here today sure I was done with mine and now I can see that reworking it another few hundred times might just be what it needs.

    ReplyDelete
  4. AnnaJuly 1, 2009 at 12:41 PM

    The star would be interesting to see, since one of my revising goals is to make sure that the point I value most is clear and reinforced. But then again, if somebody else draws a point from my piece that I hadn't intended, that's just as valuable.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Jodi44July 2, 2009 at 5:48 AM

    I like the star analogy. It is so true.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)