Monday, October 17, 2011

Sondra Perl's Processes

            The three aspects from Sondra Perl, Retrospective Structuring, Felt Sense, and Projective Structuring  are all examples of ways to make your writings improve.  Retrospective structuring is looking back on the beginning of your writing for example before you started organizing your essay you could of done exercises such as free writing to get your ideas together and what retrospective structuring does is taking those under developed thoughts to shape and reorganize them.  Felt sense is a very important part of the writing process that is feeling exactly what you want to say almost like an intuition.  For example "does what i say make sense?" or "Is this really what i want to say?" And finally projective structuring which is the ability to form what someone needs to say so it is better understood by others.  For example putting your self in the audiences shoes and thinking "how would they respond?"
            All three of these aspects are very important, but the most useful and my favorite is felt sense because it basically is the reason behind your writing.  'How will you write?' 'What will you write?' and 'why you are writing?' Is all felt sense. When writing an essay you need to say exactly what your thinking and you need to have some sort of opinion or intuition in order to place an 'argument' to get your essay started.  Without felt sense you would not be able to get your opinion or thoughts into your essay, none of it would make sense and there is no motive to your writing. 

1 comment:

  1. Good job! I especially like what you say about felt sense. Without felt sense the writing isn't even yours!

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