I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students’ (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. This is the final post. The first post is here. - Structure: the organization of meaning A word...
I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students’ (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. The first post is here. – Vulnerability: the real author’s stakes in the implied author I...
I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students’ (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. The first post is here. - Believability: the differences and similarities between various...
I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students’ (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. The first post is here. - Relatability: is it clear how the implied author is presenting the...
I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students’ (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. The first post is here. – Characterization: what makes the character different from everyone...
Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. WHAT IS CRAFT AND WHAT DOES IT DO, PART 3 - 24. Craft is an idea of craft. Which is to say both that craft is an idea and that craft is how ideas get presented as if they are not craft. 25. One can master various aspects of craft but...
Part 1 is here WHAT IS CRAFT AND WHAT DOES IT DO, PART 2 12. Craft is admission to a club. But as a friend once told me, within the club there’s always another club. 13. Craft is teachable, but is rarely proficiently taught. 14. Revision is the craft through...
What Is Craft and What Does It Do, Part 1 Craft is a set of expectations. Craft is a history of power. In other words: history is craft. Craft is a lineage of whose stories are passed down and by whom, what kind of stories are on record. Craft is both much more and...
It's the start of the semester, and I thought it would be helpful to have all of the revision prompts so far in one place. I had to put this together for my own teaching materials, so here it is. 41 revision prompts and counting! 1. Make a list of all the decisions...