WRITESPACE STUDIO 26th September 2023

Please introduce yourself by telling us where you live (country, city/state/region) and what kind of writing you do.

James: James, Stockport, UK. I write about design education in increasingly playful and concrete ways.

Lynne: I'm Lynne, a linguist in Brighton, England, who writes about language for both academic and non-academic audiences.

Vicky Holmes: Hello, Vicky in Essex, UK. Historian, working away on my second monograph.

Anita: Anita, Cape Town, academic writing on using ideas from positive psychology to help me help my maths student better.

Phil: Phil from Auckland, Aotearoa NZ. I write lots about plant medicines, particularly about research that has been done on them

Creative warm-up: Freewrite in an unusual shape across the page

Pre-pomodoro: What do you plan to work on?

Anita : A sabbatical grant application

Lynne: Still working on a blog post about assessing participation

Phil: A technical monograph on a nz native plant

Vicky: Going over my vivid verbs and accelerate

James: Continuing with results section started in CC Be dramatic

Post-Pomodoro: What is one thing you achieved?

Amy: I wrote an outline and a to-do list

Anita: A title and outline of budget items - the easy bits.

James: I pulled a paragraph apart (in the spirit of moving, we could say I disassembled it). And while it is lying on the garage floor, I am now ready to rebuild it.

WINDOWS: Please tell us one thing that you noticed, thought about, or learned

Vicky: I suggested to my students that if they are stuck on their writing, try writing by hand -- the sound of the penny dropping echoed around the classroom. They are so used to reading and writing on a screen that they don't even consider writing by hand. Check out https://barbihoneycutt.com/blogs/barbis-blog/how-to-get-students-to-read-the-give-one-get-one-strategy
I also set questions in class relating to the reading that my students work on in groups, therefore there's a bit of peer pressure to do the reading

James: Famously, Socrates thought that writing might lead to the end of civilisation. Which makes you realise that we can think of all these things as different ‘technologies’ that mediate how we think, communicate etc.

One word poem:

Inverse Multimodal Socrates