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NAM LE - BUILDING DISCURSIVE RESPONSES
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STRATEGICALLY PLANNING DISCURSIVE WRITING
The question
You're
the writer... what's required?
'The writer knows more of less what they want to say, but an accumulation of stale phrases chokes them like tea-leaves blocking a sink'.
Create a discursive response to the above statement using one of your prescribed texts.
First - Interpret the question and statement
INTERPRETATION
How does the the question/statement allow for a trajectory for discussion?
KEY CONCEPTS
IDENTIFY KEY
CONCEPTS
Choose one of the metaphors within the text e.g. unpack the metaphor of a blocked sink
- What do the tea leaves represent?
- What does the water represent?
- Which sections from the text informs your understanding about writers block?
Opportunities
Opportunities
Opportunity 1
Opportunity 1
He writes about writing.
He explores the concept of writer's block.
He steals his father's narrative.
Opportunity 2
Opportunity 2
- How does his narrative explore the role of ethics in creative writing?
- His story explores the current fashion in writing - how does popularity inform writers about their purpose?
- What inhibits the writer from being authentic?
- How is that revealed through his narrative?
- Does his narrative evoke a sense of empathy in his audience - how?
Goals
DIRECTIONS - HOW TO REACH YOUR GOAL
Goals
Other words which must be identified are the direction words. These are words which tell you which sort of answer you’re going to give.
Discuss...
To what extent...
Examine/assess/justify...
Explore how...
Compare...
Contrast...
GOAL 1
Goal 1
After identifying the content words in the question, the next step is getting down all of your ideas in some sort of a manner.
Ordered or unordered doesn’t matter to a degree.
All you’re trying to do is express everything you know about the text in terms of those content words so that you have enough information to piece together a thesis which will be coherent and well constructed, with diverse ideas and strong points based in fact.
The facts are gleaned from Nam Le's writing
GOAL 2
GOAL 2
STRUCTURE
Example Paragraph Structure:
Characterisation;
Symbolism;
Setting;
Foreshadowing
Strategy
Strategy
AS YOU WRITE HAVE THE PIECE NEXT TO YOU SO YOU CAN REFER TO IT EXPLICITLY AS YOU DEVELOP YOUR DISCUSSION
Action Item 1
Action
Item 1
ANNOTATE AND HIGHLIGHT
- Annotate key concepts
- Highlight quotes that you might use
Action Item 2
Action
Item 2
USE THE STRUCTURE
- SUBHEADINGS
- BUILD A MIND MAP
- ARGUE YOUR POINTS
- CAN YOU PROVE WHAT YOU"VE STATED USING THE MATERIAL IN NAM LE'S WRITING?
Action Item 3
Action
Item 3
HAVE YOU MADE A COHESIVE DISCUSSION ?
THE DEVELOPMENT CAN MOVE BACK AND FORTH BUT THE LOGIC OF THE STRUCTURE HAS TO BE CONSISTENT
YouR opinion
CONCEPTS
- Discursive writing requires your opinion as well as developing a discussion around a topic - i.e. the topic is writing
- If you're discussing writing about writing (metafiction, metanarrative, metacognition) you can take a stance about ethics, integrity and who has the right to tell others' stories
- You could write about personal voice, authorial intrusion, auth(or)enticity
- Merging fact and fiction
- Merging experience and point of view