Second Meeting Summary

Here's a basic outline of what we did during our meeting:

• We initially followed the procedure suggested by the handout that we received at the beginning of class.
• Then we went around and read both "Pointing and Center of Gravity" and "What's Wrong with Black English."
  
• After we did that, we had an impromptu discussion about the writing style and pointed out how it was obvious that the work (the latter selection) was not revised yet. We were confused about the general argument of the author. We then went back and shared memorable lines and phrases.
  
• It said use the protocol for each piece in our group, so we went and looked at the examples given in the text.
• Finally, we tried the procedure (Center of gravity) with the writing that we had. I can remember most clearly the work that we did for Shiori's object story and Stephanie's piece about the "Hsu trait."
  
• O.K. I am going to try and connect everything I said above with the main purpose of this report. You may be able to see that we slightly modified the procedure by allowing some time to talk about the message of the piece in addition to its center of gravity.
• There were some insightful moments where we discussed what we did not want to do as writers, like overuse words that are key to our arguments. We noticed how the author overused words like country and people.
• There wasn't an obvious connection between the last meeting and this one, but I think we did try to put what we said last time into practice. We sometimes strayed off course but came back to the topic at hand.
• I personally did see that each member of the group had a certain "voice" in their writing.
  
• Hopes for next meeting: Hopefully we can manage to have more time to discuss writing techniques that we like to use...