Monday, December 5, 2011

Crayon Response

Vickie's response to Zadie Smith was short and sweet. She chose to write a one sentence responses, as if she was responding on a note card with a pencil. The blue crayon served no beneficial purpose, other than it is likely her favorite color or only crayon left. The only images on the page are a cloud like object, 3 music notes, and a little blue scribble. The crayons lack of influence on her writing demonstrates that she feels the text should speak for itself. The abundance of crayons and colors are just for show, and add nothing to her writing. I believe that if Vickie wrote in a pen or a pencil she would have been more expressive. A one sentence response in seven minutes does not take much effort or time. Vickie usually puts much thought into her work, and I find her writing to be beautiful. This response, to be honest, is quite lame. It shows no depth and no real analysis, even though the writer is capable of writing more. The elementary writing object forced her to write as if she was still in grade school.
Knowing Vickie's capabilities, this writing is no good at all. The images provide no meaning, and seem to have no relation to the words she wrote. Her response is about the length of Zadie Smith's quote, and any good writer knows that for every quote, you should have at least three full sentences of analysis. Her response was the easy route, and from what I remember from elementary school, everyone likes to take the easy route. Even one of the best students in the class. To be honest, I do not know if this writing is considered good. I believe the reader should have that say, and because I was given little content and no real analysis, I would not consider this writing good.

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