1. Much of the information in this week's textbook assignment applies to your presentations. Discuss some of the applications you might make, as, for example, Elbow's believe/doubt, or "suspension of disbelief."
2. Exercise #1, page 38.
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#1 henry flores
ReplyDeletesuspension of belief
Elbow is saying by playing the ”believing game” you must suspend your beliefs and see the argument from their perspective, even though you don’t agree with them. One implication of elbow’s strategy of “believing game” is that a good summary must be well balanced with the authors ideas and the writer’s focus. At the same time that I believe a summary should be expressed as one’s opinion, I also believe what elbow is advocating.
Enter and essay as if you were to enter a conversation, be in the same context as your author. I think this is a great approach because sometimes when summarizing you can often use all your opinions in the first paragraph and then you run out of ideas, and that’s when you end up repeating or reiterating what the author is saying.
Know where you are going. Even though elbow insists to adopt the strategy “believing game” don’t ignore your views. Simultaneously represent what the authors say and quietly influence your view. Put your views and the author’s views in the summary but make sure that the reader can identify the author’s view, slant your view cautiously.
What I realized from this chapter is that I fall into the category “list summaries”, taking inventory of the original author’s various points. I tend to just read the text and choose keywords of the sentence and make them my own.
Christian Morin
ReplyDeleteDr. Chalaire
English 1301.20
What Elbow means in "believing game" is that you should see things from others perspectives. By all means you should be able to manage your ideas with any author's ideas. Connect your ideas as if you were to talk to the author himself.
For example, don't force your thoughts and try to accomplish them to fit the same context as the author's, this can be helpful in many ways, you should not be spending to much time in trying to know what to write, it should come to you and if you run out of your own ideas instead of forcing yourself and make your essay seam like you tried too hard you can fit on the authors ideas in order to keep yourself going.
This does not mean you should write more about the author's ideas instead of your own, its only to help you keep on going, and instead of trying too hard, you just put in the authors thoughts to make your work easier, but make sure you know what your own ideas are first, that way you can have a great start and great ending.
Cynthia E. Martinez.
ReplyDeleteDr. Chalaire
Eng. 1301.20
Week Four Quiz: 17-38
Elbow talks about the “believing game,” and what he is trying to say by this is that you should see some things from others point of view. In other words he means that you should be able to get rid of your beliefs or ideas for a moment in order to see the problem by other perspective, even if you don’t agree with others people belief. This doesn’t mean that you should no longer belief in what you think is right and start believing what others peoples think. One important thing that implicates this strategy is that you need to do a good summary and it must be well balanced with the authors’ ideas and the writer’s focus. In order to do an essay you need to be in the same topic, as the author and stay in it, don’t introduce some other things that have nothing to do with the topic. When you are writing an essay all you need is to be concentrated in what you are doing and the ideas should come out, so don’t force your mind so much to get some ideas, and if you ran out of ideas you could summarize the authors work. In other words you could convert their words into your own, and this would help you very much.
What I really like about this chapter of the book is that they explain you and give you many details about how to make moves, how to do the summaries, what other phrases and words you should use in order to make those moves and don’t get them wrong in an essay or something important.
Maria Rangel
ReplyDeleteDr. Chalaire
English 1301.20
3/10/2010
WEEK FOUR QUIZ 17-38
Elbow is talking about the "believing game." Elbow is trying to tell us that we have to imagine ourselves in the authors shoes. We have for at least an instance, forget about our opinions and listen, pay attention to what they are trying to say. He is not telling us to completly forget about what we believe or what we think is right. He just wants to us to understand what and how to write better.
He goes into detail by explaining to us how we can make our essays better.
Week Four Quiz
ReplyDeleteThe believe/doubt application is a perfect implication for an argumentative essay because it will allow you to take the information and show both dises of the argument. Giving you a distinct outlook on exactly where you stand with your argument. Elbow has an intelligent method that allows one to grasp the concept of the information but to also question it. This train of thought can teach you so much about what people mean and where their coming from. Understanding someone else's point of view is difficult when you have a different one. However, this leads to the ability to "see past a bookcover."
JoAnn Granados
ReplyDeleteDr. Mary A. Chalaire
English 1301.20
This section of the book tends to put emphasis the importance not only on what your thesis is but how you get your point across to the audience. It states that it is also essential to give reason as to why you’re writing what you’re writing to begin with. They even include several templates which may even enhance your point better. They go on to focus on Peter Elbow’s theory that you must be able to “suspend your own beliefs” in order to successfully get their point as well as your own across. By doing this he asks that you put aside any bias you may have in regards to the matter you are writing about and listen to the writers’ opinion or research. Once you can see “their argument from their perspective”, then you can successfully summarize what it is they are trying to express. And then go on to include your own opinion on the matter. I feel that the purpose of this chapter is to point out to students the importance of not only our own thoughts and opinions on what it is we’re writing about, but to also take into consideration the thoughts and opinions of the writers we use for our research or include in our discussion. It also shows us as students how to summarize the work of other writers well, to express fully to the audience what the writer really meant.