February 5, 2010.
My first illustration in an online literary magazine today. Here’s the link to the magazine and my illustration: http://www.narwhalmagazine.com/lists/sentence-types.
Here’s the image:
Into the Webosphere and Beyond!
February 5th, 2010Writing Palettes
February 4th, 2010February 4, 2010.
Here are four writing palettes. The notion of writing palettes (that is, thinking of the options we have when writing as analogous to the options artists have when painting) comes from Harry Noden’s Image Grammar. The first three palettes below were taken from the Killgallons’ Grammar for High School, a text I’m teaching this semester in my English Grammar class at ASU. The fourth palette on sentences I created some time ago.
I’m Textual
February 3rd, 2010February 3, 2010.
This cartoon came after reading the graphic novel Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli. I’d like to use it in a literature class soon, perhaps a graduate course using a reader response approach. The images require very close and deliberate reading. And the plot sequence is especially interesting.
Illustrating Sentences
February 2nd, 2010Tuesday, February 2, 2010.
Here below is a version of a drawing I made on the board today in the English Grammar class I’m teaching this spring. Students read chapter 2 in Kolln and Gray’s Rhetorical Grammar, but I found that the discussion and explanation of the 7 sentence patterns needed further clarification with a drawing that mapped out how these sentence patterns are distinguished by 4 verb types and by their complements and/or objects.
