Day 11 at SI

Sally started us off with a poem from a woman looking back fancifully on her times working at a fast food drive-in. I chose to riff off of it, or riff on it, or make a riff of it; one of those things. Purse fat with tips, the moon sitting like a cheeseburger on a flat black grill, Eric Staton, an ex-Ceo of Goldman and Sachs plans out his fast food franchise. He has made millions during the recession, enough to open up a few dozen stores, and enough to need a bigger purse. His bouncing ponytail compliments his tacky suit shirt, which more closely resembles a bowling shirt. He begins to daydream about carloads of blonde-and-tan girls pulling up in red convertibles in their tank tops. Today I also really liked rethinking the quote that Tonya handed out to me for her demonstration. “Because students do not see revision as an activity in which they modify and develop perspectives and ideas, they feel that if they know what they want to say, then there is little reason for making revisions” (Somers 382). I wrote on how I could agree with this quote, but had something different to offer. I was searching more for the cause of the symptoms rather than treating them. I believe that students do not want to modify and develop other perspectives, and just express their idea or perspective that they have come up with throughout the process of writing this paper. It is perhaps the idea of the singular thesis that is the origin of the revision problem. Multi-thesis papers would encourage differing perspectives from the onset of the paper.