What's an Invention Blog?

For this first course in Writing Studies and Composition, each student will be making an Invention Blog.  In this space, you will draft and comment on your pre-writing experiences.  You will collaborate with other readers and writers, reflect on their suggestions, read other material, and reallocate meaning.  This is a generative, messy, creative workspace.  Feel free to attach and link and respond liberally and generously here.  Inclass writing and freewriting activities should be created here also.  Revision practices go here, too. 

Remember that in the university, writing courses must fulfill two seemingly contradictory demands. Student writers must think critically and contribute their own ideas to an existing body of knowledge (or knowing), but they must also work within and strive toward a standard kind of presentation or respectability, one that follows the measured rules of presenting such information.  For this reason, students in this class will make two blogs.  The first space is this generative, process space, the Invention Blog.  The second space is the finished product space, the Portfolio Blog.  We will talk more about that after we have generated the written pieces that will be stored there.