Writing
Closed Prompt: There is always a hidden “so what?” question in every prompt, asking the writer to draw conclusions about how this contributes to the overall meaning of the writing. This is one the goals included in the prompt, and your writing must achieve all of the goals. Techniques create effects, which then create meaning.
Open Prompt: The main point that was driven into us about the open prompt is to avoid plot summary. Because we don’t have the work in front of us, it’s harder to think of specific textual examples and quotes. However, we learned to use specific scenes and the characters’ actions in order to provide evidence for how an author creates meaning. We worked on the introduction paragraph a lot, which is the same for the closed prompt: introduction to subject, key background information, thesis.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI liked that you focused on the two main parts of writing, but I felt like they could have been elaborated a tad more. The closed prompt is more than just the "so what?" question, and I felt like you spent more time elaborating on those than on the other aspects of it.
The open prompt summary was pretty good. It's really what she's been telling us all this time, but it's more or less the general aspects of the prompt.
Great job,
Erin
I liked that you included the two different types of prompts that we've done this year. I agree with Erin again, it could've been a little bit more in depth.
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