About Taylor Mali: what role does performance or writng space play in the making of meaning?

Taylor Mali, "Like You Know"

How does the poem differ in its two recensions?

Spoken word:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNIBV87wV4

[Unconventional ] Print text:
http://www.taylormali.com/index.cfm?webid=9
What reading or interpretation does spoken word (orality) privilege?  What does the textual writing space (unconventional as it is) play in the transmission of meaning?

About Project 2

Project 2 has two substantial parts.

Part 1  (worth fifty points; each group member must post the collaborative prezi on her Invention blog on the date due)

Part 1 is an argument-based, collaborative prezi, which focuses on one chapter from Jay David Bolter’s Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print  (New York: Routledge, 2001).  For this prezi, each garage band will develop and present a argument responding to Bolter’s claims in the chapter at hand.  This prezi is not a summary nor a reader response.  A profitable argument will consider the data proffered by Bolter and then present some contribution or participation in the making of new or additional meaning.  Essentially, the makers of each prezi must enter into a conversation with Bolter, or at least with the ideas that Bolter promulgates.

Each prezi should have 15 – 20 spots; should incorporate image, video, audio, and layout as appropriate; should cite work(s) and be proofread.

Part 2  (five-page zero draft in hard copy due in class on Monday, October 17^th ; final, revised copy is worth 100 points)

Bolter confides that his book’s purpose is to offer an extensive consideration of the relationship of print technology to new media (xii).  He explains:  “This edition of Writing Space is meant to fill that gap: to show how hypertext and other forms of electronic writing refashion or “remediate” the forms and genres of print” (xii).  He makes use of the metaphor of the old spaces and new spaces in which we write to comment on the changing nature and materiality of the written word.  How does the space (or spaces) in which we write influence what we write?  How does the technology of writing impact writing?

Select a particular aspect of the refashioning or remediation of print to digital writing.  In the change or re-making of print text to digital text, what do you find consistent with Bolter’s theory?  What is amiss? 

In your opinion, and in response to Bolter’s findings,

what is happening to writing?

Your five-page essay should use data from all three chapters in Bolter.  You may also incorporate and cite material from the argumentative prezis, your blog, and your peers’ blogs.  Be sure that you directly comment on all included material.  (Use what you include.)  Do not let another writer take control over your writing.

 

You are always welcome to work with the consultants in the Writing Center in Mason Hall on any writing project.  The consultants are trained to help you in all phases of drafting through revising.

Aside:  You might want to view an essay on a similar topic  written by one of my former students.  Here’s a link to his blog:

http://breenbrain.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html

Note that the student wrote the essay, refashioned its space via ISSUU, and refashioned it again by posting it to his blog.