Welcome!

Welcome experimenters! This semester we’ll be using this blog to develop our responses to the course reading. You’ll be blogging at least once a week, either the day before or the day of class. I’ll make a schedule so you’ll know when you need to post. The writing you do here doesn’t need to be as formal or as polished as the writing you’ll be doing for your papers. But it should still be thoughtful. The blog is a way to try out ideas—and to develop the ideas of others. What should you write about?  Discuss compelling or puzzling textual moments. Report on a pattern, theme, or repeated rhetorical device.  Expand on the ideas presented by someone else. Post links to relevant materials (videos, images, webpages, what have you).

We’ll begin with Virginia Woolf’s story “The Mark on the Wall.” No one is required to post this week, but I encourage you to get your feet wet and begin the conversation.