Revisiting our writing from recall posts

So you've blogged from recall, how was it?

Today you'll be sharing your writings with peers in groups of seven-ish. They will go over their thoughts with you using the Bedford Guide Checklist to help get things started. Additionally, I'd like to add two questions to the checklist. You will be using the comments field in this activity.

1. Did using a blog to write from recall alter your writing experience?
2. Did it, or should it, alter your content?

Finally, I'd like you to create a new post, for Monday (aka Sunday 10pm), where you return to the work you wrote and revise it using your peers input. Do this in a new post.

It is important, at this stage, not to edit your posts when you revise, but rather to create new ones. This will allow you to see your evolution and identify patterns in your strengths and weaknesses. Feel free to copy and paste, however.

Week 2: Total Recall

Let's talk about about tags, categories, labels and the like.

• The importance to Web 2.0
• Compare to hyper links
• Compare to... what is the real world equivalent?

Let's take a peek at some of your blogs, and take a moment to introduce ourselves.

Time permitting: Writing from Recall

Our first writing project will be writing from recall. Writing from recall is taking memories, recalling them, infusing them with your present knowledge and creating a coherent, often first-person story that allows readers not only to understand the events, but your experience and memory of the events. It may involve varying degrees of reflexivity and disclosure.

Austin Steward, 1857, traditional writing from recall.

Justin Hall as an example of writing from recall on the web.

If you need some help writing from recall you may want to check out the Bedford Guide. Bookmark it, as it is a useful guide to college writing in general.