Examples of Poiesis?

Intimate Transactions
http://www.embodiedmedia.com/projects/IT/

Legible City
http://www.lisaswanstrom.net/shawcity.htm

Plant
http://www.geekblue.net/archives/2005/08/plant_life_link.html

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Forum Response, Final Week

Respond to one of the following prompts, to someone else’s post, or start a discussion thread of your own by filling out the required fields (name, email, etc.) and clicking “leave a reply” to this post.

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Proposal Workshop

Proposal Workshop

1. Sit next to your partner and make your proposal available on the computer. Before reading each other’s proposals, present your topic orally to your partner (take turns). Summarize your thesis, share which texts you’ll be using, and describe which passages you are going to use to illustrate your thesis.

2. Trade places with your partner and read his or her proposal. When you are both finished reading, discuss the following: Does the written proposal match the oral presentation? Even if the two synch up quite well, how could they be brought into more harmonious alignment?

3. Select “track changes” from the Tools menu bar of Word. Type directly into your partner’s draft.

4. Re-write your partner’s thesis. This is not so your partner can use your work; rather, by re-writing the thesis you provide your partner with an alternative angle that he or she might not have previously considered in the initial draft(s).

5. How well do the supporting passages relate to the thesis? Pick two of the five passages your partner has chosen and write one sentence about how each passage relates to the thesis.

6. Comment on style—you obviously cannot comment on the paper as a whole, but comment on the introduction. Is it clear? Is it interesting? Does it provide a logical blueprint for the paper? Is its tone serious and sensitive? Is the writing articulate? How could the writer improve upon any aspect of style?

7. Act as a living thesaurus and suggest some alternative word choices for your partner’s introductory paragraph.

8. Edit your partner’s introductory paragraph—tighten it if you can. Clarify places that you find confusing. Note places that make good sense. Re-write any passages that don’t. If you have a question about something, write the question down on the paper.

9. Suggest any additional or alternative passages that the author might wish to consider.

10. Be kind. Be respectful. Be honest.

When you are finished, make sure you save yourself a copy of your partner’s commentary. Use what you find useful; discard what you do not. Turn this exercise in with your final draft.

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