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From College Writing Syllabus

HUPOMNEMATA (HOOP-OH-NAY-MAUGHT-AHH)
One of the best ways to document your writing development over the course of the semester is to reflect on your writing process in a hupomnemata. In ancient Greece, hupomnemata were used as memoranda where one “entered quotations, fragments of works, examples, and actions to which one had been witness of or of which one had read the account, reflections or material memory of things read, heard, or thought, thus offering these as an accumulated treasure for rereading and later meditation. They also formed a raw material for the writing of more systematic treatises in which were given arguments and means by which to struggle against some defect . . . or to overcome some difficult circumstance.” The basic assumption that underwrites the use of a hupomnemata is that “no technique, no professional skill can be acquired without exercise” (Foucault, “On the Genealogy of Ethics”). Instructors will provide specific directions on how to use this text throughout the term, but generally this assignment requires the purchase a Moleskine notebook (or its off brand equivalent) for use as a collection space for copying crucial passages in the readings; raising questions about those readings for further discussion; reflecting on the challenges that one encounters throughout the writing process; cataloguing popular artifacts (such as images, magazine articles, etc.) that resonate with the course readings; and sketching ideas for future papers or revisions. In effect, these notebooks provide students with a space to begin testing the initial arguments that they will elaborate in the final portfolio. The hupomnemata is due with the final portfolio.

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