![]() These visualization strategies are somehow extraneous to what we’re really doing, which is working on writing.I’m the only one at the table who does her best thinking through visualizations, and/or.I hear myself say the following with alarming frequency: “I’m sorry it’s just that I’m sort of a visual processor.”īut why do I apologize? Inherent in that “sorry” is the assumption that: This is something for which I seem to feel the need to apologize. During an average shift in the Writing Center you can find me ripping the staple out of a student’s draft so that I can spread the pages on the table, drawing an idea map while the student talks, scrawling symbols next to each paragraph that correspond to topics, or bee-lining for the “highlighter” tool in the student’s word processing software. This tendency-unsurprisingly-spills off of the blue sheet and into most aspects of my teaching. At the end of every shift I teach, the back of my blue sheet is covered in arrows, inscrutable Venn diagrams, crude drawings of staircases, circled and re-circled symbols… Basically, if our civilization crumbles and the archeologists of a future age find only my blue Writing Center sheets, they will likely conclude that we were a race of madmen. This is probably why I almost exclusively use the back side of the blue sheets, which is, delightfully, completely blank. ![]() ![]() I was not, however, a kid who placed my toys into neat rows I was a finger-painting, dirt-tracking chaos-maker. The front side of these sheets is a study in order. They provide a simple grid for marking down the date, the time of each appointment, the students’ names, and a few notes about each conference. She is also a dissertator in literary studies, focusing on 19th century British Literature and Latin American revolution.Įvery instructor in our Writing Center knows the blue record sheets we stock. Jessie is the TA Assistant Director of the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'visualize.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 The champagne party sequence and the finale are especially thrilling, as the director uses unsteady cameras and wobbly focus to visualize an inebriated, shaky point of view. 2023 Show caskets and victims to visualize the evil of gun violence. 2022 What to visualize: Imagine your foot is cut into three sections. 2022 At Climate Central, Pershing and his colleagues created a tool to help people visualize the effects of such warming over time. 2022 Towell’s work also helped Polley visualize the movie’s locations-chief among them a hayloft where the women debate their options-and informed her sympathetic depiction of communal devotion. Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023 In her work with autistic kids, Adams often used Play-Doh as a way to help children visualize and understand the physical act of pooping. 2023 Through detailed and creative illustrations, this classic book shows the importance of having a job, and helps kids visualize what someone does all day in their job. Recent Examples on the Web Dyeing the estuary outflow water pink will help the team visualize it and separate it from the ocean water.
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