August 24, 2011

Hey Everyone!
Well, today was a fairly easy lesson to comprehend! We started on Chapter 2 which was "The Writing Process: Stage One. Exploring/Experimenting/ Gathering Information. We began reading "Stage One Strategies" which are based on developing our ideas in writing. The first and only strategy that we talked and learned about today was freewriting. Freewriting is basically writing on your own. Jotting down all the thoughts and ideas that come to YOUR mind when you think of a topic, without stopping. Freewriting is to get you started on brainstorming, helps break through the emotional barrier, helps develops different and more ideas about your topic, and also helps open up the mind to greater thoughts about a topic. There is no such thing as a "mistake" in freewriting. According to the textbook, freewriting also eliminates the blank page. After reading that section of the textbook, we proceeded onto the first exercise which was to freewrite about any of the following topics that were given to us, and there were some volunteers who came forth and gave us some of their ideas about freewriting on that topic that they chose. Overall, today's class session was a pretty light lesson. I enjoyed it. OH! I almost forgot, we also learned how to work the moodle room for those of us who never used it before. That too was pretty easy to get. See you all Monday!

-Chelsea