Notes from our Grading Discussion, Plus an Idea

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We had an excellent discussion, I thought, about just how we will go about determining course grades. More thoughts? Questions?
The idea: What if we posted our 100-word entries as replies to the post setting the topic AS WELL as to our own [...]

Monday’s 100-Word Topic

On this, Martin Luther King Day, Ashleigh gives us LIGHTNING as our topic.  Remember to tag your posts with “100 words: to make it easier for us to find your posts!

Friday Recap–100 Words & Multimedia

Many of you have started playing around with the 100 Words exercise; such interesting results from Cloe’s MAPS topic from Alex R, Aneliya, Annabelle, Cloe, Dickie, Jen, Jessica, Sally, Ting, and yours truly. I’m not sure what happened to the rest of you (I suppose Friday isn’t the best day to begin [...]

The Syllabus Evolves…

…as I learn to “read” you and hear about what you’re interested in learning and writing. As I come to know more about your previous writing experiences, and as we explore the readings and exercises together, I’d like to make an adjustment in the assignments for next week.
I think we can move more quickly [...]

That the bookstore ran out of our books…

is probably a good sign that people are wanting to read contemporary creative nonfiction, but it certainly poses a problem for those of you without copies.  If it would help, I can bring my copies to the library this afternoon and put them on reserve (email me or leave a comment here).  Otherwise, please share [...]

Welcome to Contemporary Creative Nonfiction!

You’ve made it to The Motherblog! Here’s where we’ll gather when we’re not in class, connecting with one another and the world beyond Middlebury as we explore creative nonfiction expression. Each of you will set up a blog where you’ll post your experiments, discussions, reflections, musings and full-fledged works of creative nonfiction (we’ll [...]