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To make ready for class today, I went through a few invention exercises.
\nI wanted to mix it up, vary the approaches to show a range of possibilities for
\nessay one: A Tech Autobiographical Sketch<\/a>. The assignment serves a few purposes,
\nnot the least of which are a writing sample and a portrait of students’ tech
\nbackgrounds, which influence my aims and design for the next several weeks.<\/p>\n

The assignment asks students to tell their technological becoming<\/i>.
\nIt’s a narrative essay about gadgetry and mechanisms, from old, block-style
\nLegos to one-buttoned joysticks, from coin-op school supply dispensers to
\ncordless phones with auto redial. And my favorite: hand-held football
\ngames with red, LED players on both teams, no matter whether it was the Patriots and Panthers or the Lions and Browns (my imagined<\/i>, dream Superbowl). Red blips on both sides of the ball; a fresh 9-volt battery and a 45 minute school bus ride, one-way; those were the days.<\/p>\n

My models for the class, for the essay, included a graphic organizer, a messy map of sorts that starts with a blank sheet of paper and a will to scribble
\nwithout inhibition, loose clusters of ideas. The second model, even more
\nspontaneous than the first because of its disregard of coherence, was a list of
\n50. A fit of associations with the perpetual present guided by impulse and
\nonly the faint beckoning of the writing prompt. My list (for the tech
\nautobiographical sketch) looked like this:<\/p>\n

Boeing 757 to Seattle, Supersonics shirt, Mount St. Helens, Pong with
\npaddles, Frogger, black and white television, Galaga at Pizza Hut, camcorder,
\nC64 programs in basic, [friends who] pirated software, welding and your eyes,
\nTetris, first broadcast warfare, statistical reports, digital photography,
\nsurveillance cameras, exercise equipment, rocket launches, stopwatch, camping
\nwith cords, Popular Science<\/i>, helicopter bike, northern lights, fishing
\nsonar, radar detectors, Sault locks, fax machines, Mouse Trap, Operation w\/
\nglue, Walkman, audio books, Lance Haffner Final Four, Adam computer, tape drive soccer, Rambo knife w\/ compass, Tecmo Bowl, breakaway rims, car stereo wiring, magnet games, batteries, race track motors, vibrating football board, UHF\/VHF antennae, TV adjust with pliers<\/p>\n

I stopped at 44. The inventive scope had me reeling. Could have
\ngone longer, but I had to get on with the third model: a formal outline.
\nLess stimulating, in my view, but important to show, to talk about what purpose
\nit might serve, its relative structured-ness. So I dummied one up on the
\nevolution of photography in my days: slide-projector shows, Polaroids, a
\ncostly\/priceless Dimage7i, up to Kodak’s abandonment of film camera’s in Western markets last week<\/a>. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This assignment, good or bad, was already concocted before I read
\n
\nGalen Strawson’s review<\/a> of
\n
\nJerome Bruner’s book, Making Stories<\/i><\/a>, which I came upon over at
\nArts & Letters Daily<\/a>. I haven’t read the book, but the review sparked my interest, led me to believe Bruner’s latest has parts that would help me think more fully about narrative and its place in composition studies. <\/p>\n

This snippet of the review left me with a kind of Myers-Briggs itch, which
\nI’ll explain:<\/p>\n

\n Is any of this true? Do we create ourselves? Is the narrativity view a
\n profound and universal insight into the human condition? It’s a partial truth
\n at best, true enough for some, completely false for others. There is a deep
\n divide in our species. On one side, the narrators: those who are indeed
\n intensely narrative, self-storying, Homeric, in their sense of life and self,
\n whether they look to the past or the future. On the other side, the
\n non-narrators: those who live life in a fundamentally non-storytelling
\n fashion, who may have little sense of, or interest in, their own history, nor
\n any wish to give their life a certain narrative shape. In between lies the
\n great continuum of mixed cases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The “deep divide” between compulsive narrators and their counterparts left me wondering whether I’ve been obtuse in weaving narrative slants into
\nsolicitations for essays in undergraduate writing courses. Surely we aren’t
\nrigidly fixed along any<\/i> continuum, are we? My itch comes from the
\nresonant echo of this passage to other sorts of neat social stamping–the sort
\nthat rely on gross simplifications to exclude our moods, fluctuations,
\ninteranimations and ambiguity. I was told late last week that I’d be part
\nof a committee of three who will meet for six hours next Monday to revise a
\ndepartmental strategic planning statement. Important work, to be sure.
\nBut six hours? Why? Because we’re all introverts was the
\nexplanation. Well, yeah, in this case, on this project, I’d rather work
\nindependently for two hours, quietly, to do the work we’ll accomplish in six
\nhours of circular exchanges about how to spend money on this and that. The
\nadministration buys into Myers-Briggs typecasting; it’s that simple. Once
\nyou’re an “I” there’ll be no doubling back, darling. <\/p>\n

But, for me, I rather tend to regard myself as INFP one day, ESTJ the next. Flexible and varied, more so than essential. But then again, maybe I’m just storying myself that way through contrived, never-ending narratives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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