Curation
This week you will be revisiting writing you have done since you have been enrolled at the university. It can be difficult. As a cognitive act, when we write, we ascribe meaning both to the process and its significance. You will do some more reflection a bit later in the term to think through some of that, but for now, rereading your work challenges us because we tend to want to protect our time investment in the initial process and our beliefs (see this interview with Ramachandran and this article from Golman, Hagmann, and Loewenstein). As Alyson Stanfield writes of curating art, “There’s no way you can be objective. You love everything, you hate everything, you want to show everything you have, or you don’t want to show anything at all.”
Curating your writing is like creating a music playlist. To do this, you have to be familiar with all of the songs first. That can be difficult as well. You have to dig through your files, remember what you wrote, what was said about a piece, and what the assignment was.
This week, you are going to collect all of your written work, create an infographic about that collection, and then begin selecting the work to be included in the portfolio. As part of that selection, you will need to select at least one piece and begin work on the Revision assignment due in two weeks.
Reading this week
- What is an Infographic?
- Your past written work at DU. As much of it as you have.
Design this week
- Curation
- Infographic [due Friday, 11:59pm]
- Begin Revision [the draft isn’t due until week 6, but you should start thinking about it now]