Tilden---KC

Article: "Stratigraphies: Writing a Suspect Terrain Author: Norma Tilden

Responce by: Katelyn Clews

In this article, Norma Tilden analyses McPhees article "In Annals of the Former World".I havent read this article by McPhee yet, but after reading the article by Tilden, it seems like something i would eventually venture into reading it. Basically Tilden is summarizing up what McPhee's main point was to his article. McPhees article is about geology around the world, and how the land is always changing, just like we are as humans. Tilden brought up the importance of the land, and how McPhee says that writing about the land and actually seeing it, and being there, are completely different things. The land doesnt freeze as if it were a picture, it is always moving and changing in its own ways. Making a writen descriptionf of the land hard to protray. She also brings up the process of being correct, when it comes to facks, words and spellings. For example: McPhee' s spelling of " Terrane" or "Terrain". Which ever you use depends on who you are and what you talking about. What i think the point of this was, was that writing, and journalism is like nature, and the earth in some ways. There are always hard facts, but there's always room for interpretation. Just like the earth and nature, its always changing, theres never one known answer to everything.