Kiney Galloway

Learning Logs #2

February 18, 2021

Begin a new Google document for Learning Log #2.

“Personal Literacy and Academic Learning” - Marlena Stafford.

1. Record two “golden quotes.”

2. Create a timeline mapping your reading or writing history. Include memorable moments from birth to now
that have shaped you as a reader or a writer. (Include at least ten events.)

February 23, 2021- “You will never believe What Happened!”

1. “embodied and instinctive mode of understanding” (23). Telling stories is one
way we use language as a resource to create and build relationships.
2. “We also use stories to communicate our values to others. Stories are our
attempts to make sense of the world. We narrate our experience in order to
connect with others and validate our own experience and self-worth. We shape
our identity through these stories.”
3. When we tell a story it gives us the sense that we are still huma. We are able to
make things out of lives that are story worthy. When we read a story and or
book it brings us into another world. Your humanity is switched off because
you are in a whole new fantasy world. WHen you are done reading that book
story your humanity is back and you feel a sense of aww. It brings you back
into life and it comforts you.

March 2,2021- “Adding the Story Tellers Tools to your Writers Toolbox”-Clint
Johnson
1. Writing ideas down will make your essays flow more, writing is more
important when you just write and don't think about it too much, writing is
more productive when you are not super stressed about it and can just write.
a. Writing stories requires that we write meaningful scenes: areas of intense focus
where we describe people, places, and actions in order to make a reader feel they
have witnessed something themselves.
b. When people make claims about what is good or bad, effective or ineffective, or true
or false, we automatically compare the claim to our lived experience. We ask, Does
this make sense to me? Have I seen it bear out in my life? Stories can provide new
experiences by which people can make sense of the claims they encounter. Could this
 help a reader understand something that may be accurate even if they have not
experienced it themselves, making them more likely to accept your claims?
c. the importance of sensory description. Could the evocative description of human
tastes—salty, savory, sweet, bitter, and sour—help people remember their favorite
flavors, maybe beloved childhood foods, and associate those with this new
restaurant?
d. Could the evocative description of human tastes—salty, savory, sweet, bitter, and
sour—help people remember their favorite flavors, maybe beloved childhood foods,
and associate those with this new restaurant?
e. Conflict is produced when different individuals or groups have competing interests
and take action trying to achieve their personal goals, often by overcoming resistance
from others. Might you not find similar patterns in your research on safety versus
privacy, and might that pattern help you discern where you should put your focus? Is
it possible to understand a social issue as a story, with different parties serving as
characters with their own motivations?

March 4, 2021- Memorability

1. Each of the words influence a different way to write. They all relate to tips and
pieces of advice from other writers. These words are used to help impact our
writing in a positive way rather than in a negative way.
2. S- consider simplicity. Don't overthink everything you are writing
3. U- comedy, laughter, sadness, emotions rely on the the unexpected
4. C-connect your concrete information
5. C- make sure what you write is credible
6. E- if you put emotion into what you write the story will flow better.
7. Sb- tell a story, paint a story, just write until you have a story.
8. C- make sure your conclusion ties everything into what has been said together.

March 10, 2020- Story as Rhetorical

1. Rigor- This is an important word. Teachers are sometimes engaged in a debate,

maybe even a contest, concerning how rigorous their courses are in comparison to
other colleagues. I suspect that, in fact, throughout your already lengthy academic
careers, a lot of extra work, sometimes busy work, has landed on your lap because a
teacher of yours was trying to prove herself a rigorous teacher.
2. “there is a conflict between the ways we treat narrative in school (as a type of writing,
often an easy one) and the central role narrative plays in our consciousness” (5). If
this claim has at least some validity (it’s also worth noting that Newkirk is a
composition scholar who directs the New Hampshire Literacy Institutes), then it’s odd
that many writing teachers are apologetic about their narrative assignments.
 3. The progression of our ideas and filling this hole in our research demonstrates the
contours of this debate. It is easier to make an argument about how to use narrative in
the writing classroom than it is to argue that story or narrative is foundational for all
writing. The first claim doesn’t really even need to be made, as we all recognize short
vignettes or stories in all types of writing, but the second claim has tension (Newkirk)
because other writing teachers could certainly disagree and back up this disagreement
with studies and reasoning. However, the story of our research, in this case, is a form
of evidence in and of itself.
4. I am arguing, along with Newkirk, that when we write we are asking our readers to
come along with us on a journey. Even if this movement is not mentioned explicitly
and even if it is not accomplished with literal plots, there is movement: a movement
from one insight to another, the movement of inquiry. When we do not engage our
readers in this movement, we lose an opportunity to allow them a window into our
meaning-making process.

March 15,2021- Narrative Effect

1. 5 things:
a. narratives are good to think with.
b. should think of all writing as storytelling.
c. how to think about a narrative as a type of text, or genre, one that,
therefore, exhibits some reliable features, makes some typical moves,
and fulfills some readerly expectations, as well as the reasons we might
want to use narrative.
d. A narrative text puts story first; it frames the reader’s experience of the
text by forwarding, or emphasizing, story-telling strategies.
e. as a cognitive structure or way of making sense of experience, as a type
of text, and as a resource for communicative interaction”
2. I learned that “to create the narrative effect for a reader—when they want the
reader to see into that story-world, to empathize or to feel with the characters,
and to feel motivated by the circumstances or occasions of the story’s telling.”
This quote will help me write my memoir better.

March 22, 2021- “Peer Review”- Jim Beatty

1. In the first quote it states to go along with the feedback quote “Poor grammar
usually only greatly impacts your grade if it gets in the way of clarity (if the
professor cannot decode what you are trying to say) or your authority (it would
affect how much readers would trust you as a writer). And, with a careful editing
process, a writer can catch these errors on their own. If they are convinced they
have a good thesis statement and they don’t, however, then you can help them by
identifying that.” This quote goes along with the first quote because it is stating
 that poor grammar does not always impact what you're writing. When The Writer
goes back to what they wrote they are able to correct them and find their errors.
2. In the second quote, in the paragraph below the heading named “ HOW TO
RECEIVE FEEDBACK” it states “Try your best not to respond until your
reviewer is finished giving and explaining their feedback. Keep in mind that your
peers do not have all the information about your paper that you do. If they
misunderstand something, take it as an opportunity to be clearer in your writing
rather than simply blaming them for not getting it. Once you give a paper to
another person, you cannot provide additional commentary or explanations. They
can only evaluate what’s on the page.” This quote is showing that we need to
accept the feedback that we receive so then when we write again we can make it
better.