Reflective Writing

How Do I Write Reflectively? (mostly from https://student.unsw.edu.au/reflective-writing)

Reflective writing is:

• your response to experiences, opinions, events or new information
• your response to thoughts and feelings
• a way of thinking to explore your learning
• an opportunity to gain self-knowledge
• a way to achieve clarity and better understanding of what you are learning
• a chance to develop and reinforce writing skills
• a way of making meaning out of what you study

Reflective writing is not:

• just conveying information, instruction or argument
• pure description, though there may be descriptive elements
• straightforward decision or judgement (e.g. about whether something is right or wrong, good or bad)
• simple problem-solving
• a summary of course notes
• a standard university essay

What can I discuss?

• Your perceptions of the course and the content.
• Experiences, ideas and observations you have had, and how they relate to the course or topic.
• What you found confusing, inspiring, difficult, interesting and why.
• Questions you have
• How you:
  • solved a problem;
  • reached a conclusion;
  • found an answer;
  • reached a point of understanding.
• Possibilities, speculations, hypotheses or solutions.
• Alternative interpretations or different perspectives on what you have read or done in your course.
• Comparisons and connections between what your are learning and:
  • your prior knowledge and experience;
  • your prior assumptions and preconceptions;
  • what you know from other courses or disciplines.
• How new ideas challenge what you already know.
• What you need to explore next in terms of thoughts and actions.

Tips

• Think of an interaction, event or episode you experienced that can be connected to the topic
• Describe what happened
• What was your role?
• What feelings and perceptions surrounded the experience?
• How would you explain the situation to someone else?
• What might this experience mean in the context of your course?
• What other perspectives, theories or concepts could be applied to the situation?
• Start with a mindmap: put your topic in the centre, connect your personal experience situation or feelings, connect concepts from this course (e. g., classifications in respect of gender, class, race, sexuality, generation....; iconic representations and signifying codes...)

The Onion

http://www.theonion.com/articles/conservative-group-gay-marriage-will-lead-to-90000,38495/

Some Canadian fake news programs - Daniela's courtesy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcadbpWUaqI

Rick Mercer Report

This Hour has 22 minutes

The Daily Show

Fakin'it

     FAKIN' IT!: How The Daily Show and The Colbert Report Affect Politics and Policy

by Thomas J. Faletta   

Rachel Maddow, sobre a influência do Daily Show na política real

Superduperman (Mad 4, 1953)

Karin Badt

http://kbadt.free.fr/

Imagens da Revista MAD

Lana & Lou (by Margarida Vale de Gato)

This is an imaginary duet between Lana Del Rey and Lou Reed I wrote as a creative writing exercise. In Portuguese and in English.

Lana

Brava e mel, no lugar da morta,

Debruçada entre a estrada e tu,

No couro do selim, nas tuas esporas,

Reluz ouro e eu vou Lou.

Chorus

Tu és Brooklyn eu sou Malibu.

O ghetto é denso, o verão lento,

Louca a vida, o voo vazio, levanta

O vento o disfarce sob a roupa:

Eu, Lana Chama; tu, Junkie Lou.

Lou

Morto sou, nem lugar espero

Na Califórnia da tua mente.

Não és inóspita fronteira,

És impostora, teu presente só

Retalho de passados, não história,

Não real gente; a nação decerto

Te consome, os pais que adoras

Cortaram na veia a estrada aberta.

Chorus

Tu és Brooklyn eu sou Malibu.

O ghetto é denso, o verão lento,

Louca a vida, o voo vazio, levanta

O vento o disfarce sob a roupa:

Tu, Lana Chama; eu, Junkie Lou.

Lana

Sou a heroína que amarraste ao alto

Do mastro. No lado brusco da via

És cavaleiro do asfalto,

E oh, está tão perfeito o dia.

Chorus

Tu és Brooklyn eu sou Malibu.

O ghetto é denso, o verão lento,

Louca a vida, o voo vazio, levanta

O vento o disfarce sob a roupa:

Eu e tu: Lana Chama, Junkie Lou. 

Lana & Lou

Lana

I’m your wild honey, riding shotgun

Leanin' over the road and you,

Your saddle of leather, the spurs you own,

Shine of gold, I’m comin' on, Lou.

Chorus

You are Brooklyn, I am Malibu,

The ghetto is thick, summer is slow

Wild life, no flight; just the wind blows,

Disclosing masks under clothes,

I, Flame Lane; You, Junkie Lou.

  

Lou

I am dead, don't expect in the least

To occupy the California of your mind.

You’re no angry frontier of the West,

You’re a hoax, your present blind

To history, a quilt shorn of pasts,

No real people, the nation loathes

And consumes you, the fathers you praise

Have cut the veins to the open roads.

Chorus

You are Brooklyn, I am Malibu,

The ghetto is thick, summer is slow

Wild life, no flight; just the wind blows,

Disclosing masks under clothes,

You, Flame Lane; I, Junkie Lou.

Lana

I am the heroine you strapped high

To the mast. Takin’ it the rough way

You’re the asphalt knight.

And oh, it’s such a perfect day.

Chorus

You are Brooklyn, I am Malibu,

The ghetto is thick, summer is slow

Wild life, no flight; just the wind blows,

Disclosing the mask under clothes,

You & I: Flame Lane, Junkie Lou.

Reading suggestion by David Mira: Torture the Artist by Joey Goebel

Torture The Artist was written by Kentucky-born writer and musician Joey Goebel (1980). He has four published books: The Anomalies, Torture The Artist, Commonwealth e I Again Osborne. His musical carreer is linked to bands like Novembrists and The Mullets. It's funny how his name is so similar to Hitler's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbles.

Sinopse do livro em inglês(retirada do site Goodreads):

 

 

Vincent Spinetti is an archetypal tortured artist ? a sensitive young writer who falls victim to alienation, parental neglect, poverty, depression, alcoholism, illness, nervous breakdowns, and unrequited love. He is painfully unaware that these torments are due to the secret manipulations of New Renaissance, an experimental organization that is testing the age-old idea that art results from suffering. Since culture is so significantly influenced by music, movies, and television, New Renaissance hopes to improve the mindless mainstream by raising writers who emphasize artistic quality over commerce. As part of its top-secret sub-project, New Renaissance hires reluctant ex-musician Harlan Eiffler to manipulate its most promising prodigy, Vincent. Wickedly antisocial and deeply disgusted by what passes for entertainment in the twenty-first century, Harlan clandestinely pulls the strings so that Vincent remains a true artist. All the while, he poses as Vincent's manager, simultaneously nurturing his prolific career and torturing his soul. Smart, funny, and poignant, Torture the Artist is the timely, much-anticipated second novel from a brilliant new voice in fiction.

Endereço do site do autor:

 http://joeygoebel.com/

Endereço do site Goodreads: 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293602.Torture_the_Artist?from_search=true&search_exp_group=group_b