Major Projects Revealed!

Today was a fast day in Senior Sem.  Folks brought their major project drafts, and we read them.  Sounds simple enough.  Fascinating stuff, all of it unfinished and in-progress.  Authors asked for specific kinds of feedback on their papers (something other than the vague "do you like it," which means very little).  We read, annotated, and gave comments.

For Thursday, authors are to write two more pages (500 words at least) and somehow (how this will be done is a mystery to me), draw from the handout, below.  It has to look natural, too!


Print this for class.  I'll print it if you send it on before class.  

Looking forward to it.

DRF

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• Malcolm Gladwell writes “Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.  Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig” Outliers, 150.
• “Working really hard is what successful people do….[it gives] a way to find meaning the midst of great uncertainly and poverty” (239)
• “Intelligence has a threshold” (80).
• “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good.  It’s the thing you do that makes you good” (42).
• “We all live inside our own private version of the adjacent possible” Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From, 40.
• “Darwin’s ideas evolve because on some basic leel the notebook platform creates a cultivaten space for his hunches; it is not that th notebook is a mere transcription of the ideas, which are happening offstage in Darwin’s mind” (83).