Title: Skills Session 1: Summary and Quotation Unit: PAE001-1 Practising Ideas: Approaches to Theory Course: Performing Arts Institution: University of Bedfordshire Tutors: Dr Louise Douse

1. Skills Summary 1:
Commentary on a Quotation
and Summary of an Article
Practising Ideas: Approaches to Theory - Seminar
Dr Louise Douse

2. University of Bedfordshire 2
Write down questions you have
from this mornings lecture
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3. Stream-of-consciousness writing task
• Keep your hand moving. (Don’t pause to reread the line you have
just written. That’s stalling and trying to get control of what you’re
saying.)
• Don’t cross out. (That is editing as you write. Even if you write
something you didn’t mean to write, leave it.)
• Don’t worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar. (Don’t even care
about staying within the margins and lines on the page.)
• Lose control.
• Don’t think. Don’t get logical.
• Go for the jugular. (If something comes up in your writing that is
scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.)
(Goldberg, 2005, pp. 10-11)University of Bedfordshire 3