Weblogging the Event:
          Journal Entry #4: Printed Copy Due Tuesday July 26
"Attend a communal event. You may choose to come to the field trip to the theater, but it is not required. List various details you notice about the presentation or about the people in the auditorium. Notice standout details and try to record how they color your experience. Don't worry about order. Just keep recording what you hear and asking yourself what you notice. Don't include judgments or conclusions about the event. Just collect detail that strikes you as particularly telling. You will find that it is surprisingly difficult to leave out your reactions, though you should recognize that the details you choose to record are already reactions because it is you and your orientation toward the world that have selected them.
          When you are finished put together use a standard acdemic essay style to put together a one-to two-page account that tells by showing--that is, your account should be made up entirely of telling detail rather than your interpretations of the significance of that detail. Your goal is to provide readers of your account with a window on the world, but one that is, of course, highly selective, because writing does not operate like a camera eye. Writing is inevitably and necessarily more selective. Keep revising your account until you have a rendering of your 'data'--the observed details--that will cause your readers to think and feel as you do about the scene" (7).
Record your finished observations into your webjournal. You may choose to record notes or whatever extraneous information into your private journals.