Berkenkotter and
Murray
Lisa McClain
9/11/12
Summery
-Berkenkotter wanted to do research on how writers think
during there writing, what gets them going, what situations they do best in,
and all that sort. But when Berkenkotter bit his research on Murray he found
out that she didn’t really have a set way. She does best at home or in her
office on her free time, and when put in a new environment with precise
material she had to follow she did do so well. Also she never revises her
writings she fixes as she goes which shocked Berkenkotter.
Before
you read
-When someone dies; they never really “die because they live
within us, in our memories and in our hearts. When they go they leave our world
and go with God to heaven, were they never stop looking after us and watching
over us. And one day we will join our loved once in heaven. At first I thought
it would be easy then I realized and took into thought about what might confuse
a child or scare them and that went into play.
QD
-His writing process is talk into a recorder then he also
has a notebook. My same is writing in a notebook and difference is I don’t talk
in a record but I type it up instead.
-His revising was changed to reading out loud and scans his
writing as he wrote to fix it.
MM
-I think the best thing I can take away from this reading is
to, carry a journal around with me to write down ideas. Then I would wait till
I’m in my own writing environment where the ideas would transform into a story.
Reflection
-I thought it was interesting how Murray didn’t take a lot
of steps for his work, but got right to the core of it and edited as he went.
Synthesis
-Berkenkotter and Kline were a lot alike because they did
research on writers and there writing technique. They were both shocked by the
results they came across in there research.
Lisa, are you interested in creative writing? I gleaned from you description of what you learned that you write or are interested in writing stories. We have a creative writing program here at OU, if it's something you're interested in let me know. You do a good job identifying why Berkenkotter is interested in the research she is doing on Murray. Why is Murray involved? What does Berkenkotter mean when she talks about "reconceiving?" You talk about the idea of revising and how Murray doesn't seem to engage in revising in a straight-forward manner, but the idea of reconceiving is central to Berkenkotter's discoveries. See if you can explore this concept a bit more.
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