April 3, 2008

• “Essays should reflect the way we think and experience the world. And the fact is, we often think and experience the world in a multidimensional, multivoiced way” (47). The Case for Double-Voiced Discourse, Lad Tobin.

  “Structure is the juxtaposition of parts, the way in which two parts of a piece of writing merely by lying side-by-side, can comment on each other without a word spoken. The way in which the thing is assembled, you can get much said, which can be lying there in the structure of the piece rather than being spelled out by a writer (Sims, 13)” (49). Reminds me of my multi-genre papers. And the PPT MusicVideo.

  Most Common Double-Voiced Narratives:
  Past/Present: Indians who lived in the mountains/Your own details of a hike
  External Action/Internal Consciousness: A car accident
  Historical Reality/Symbolic Reality
  (My own addition) Research/Commentary: Blogging Statistics/My blog entries

  I was thinking of assigning a multi-genre research paper (as a substitution for The Stretch Project) next fall, but maybe a double-voiced narrative would work. Especially the Research/Commentary one. Could integrate my current theme of Media OR could use my possible future theme of What Is An Essay?

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