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WRITING THE BODY
Experimental Writing Project Proposal
Summarize what you have so far thought of for your project. What will your suface be? How will you inscribe your text?
What do you want to write about? Remember, your project needs to explore the themes/issues we have been addressing this semester.
Do a brainstorm of what you remember us discussing/reading (this brainstorm will help clarify which of the issues we have discussed matter most to you.
From this brainstorm, free-write about what each of the issues/themes you have remembered has to do with you, your life, your language/mind/body relation, how you see/experience the world.
This relationship between your life/world and the issues we address will probably from the core desire of your writing. (I use desire in a very specific sense here -- you may roughly equate it to "purpose" -- that is, what motivates and directs the writing -- but I want you to think more broadly about how this writing is an opportunity to make connections (between individual and social bodies, personal and collective memory, memory/language/identity, mind-body-writing) that trace out and follow through your desiring.
Have you begun your project yet? If not, why? We have 5 weeks left in the semester (not counting this week). Make a timeline for completing and submitting your project.
March 20
March 27
April 3
April 10
April 17
April 24
For your final exam, you will talk about some aspect of your project work. For those of you including personal work that you do not want to share in public, you might talk about theories that you have read and that are important to your work, about the process of writing, about what you have discovered as a result of the work, etc. I will work with you in advance if you have any concerns about how to handle the final exam component of this project and maintain your privacy.