All cut up...

My experience completing the cut up assignment was certainly an interesting one. I never imagined it being so easy to create a new writting piece by simply rearranging my old writting. For the assignment I used four different papers I have written this semester and took a section of each of them. When chosing these selections, I based my decisions on what fit together best. For example, a page with a lot of indentations in it left gaping holes in the middle of my final piece, so I tried to shy away from using these and instead used ones that looked better. In general, I see the cut up style of writting as more of an art form than a writting assignment. Perhaps this is a result of the non-traditional style of writting that this utilizes. On another note we talked in class about writers who use the cut up as their predominate writting form and do so by writting an essay or story with the intention of cutting it up later. Although this is both adventurous and creative, I could not see myself actually writting something and putting time into it, only to later cut it apart. I guess that since I used old papers I had previously written instead of papers I wrote specifically for the purpose of this assignment, I had a more possitive experience with it than I may have otherwise. That said, here is an excepert from my cut up which combined a CommArts essay about film, a paper about education in the US, a Sociology paper about gender portrayal on reality television and a reflection on my ghostwritting experience for this class:

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Clearly, any individual reading this that was not already familiar with the assignment would see it as being nonsense. It is pretty obvious where the cut up pieces come together, as the topic of writting shifts from one thing to the next with no clear transition. I guess that if you sit down and try and analyze this piece by piece it is possible to make some sense out of it and generate a meaning using a large ammount of creativity. Luckily, I did not have too many words that blurred together. Though this makes each word easier to understand, it is also more of a challange to determine where the writting splits are.

After transcribing this passage, I have decided to change my mind and say that if I were to do too much more cutting up in the future I would not be philisophically inspired or feeling more creative. Instead, I think I would go through my writting with a massive headache.