Tag: X5

Workshops

Pretty much the same process as before. Read your drafts. (If you’ve written significantly over 1500 words, pick a 1500 word section to read.) Readers should focus on:

• What’s working in this draft?
• What does the writer need to work on more?

Added questions

• What more do you need to know about the text the writer is discussing?
• What more do you need to know about what the writer wants to say about that text?

Post-Workshop Memo

Send me an email in which you talk about:

• What you need to say more about the text you’re writing about;
• How you need to clarify your perspective on that text.

And

• Any other questions you may have for me.

Revised Schedule

Of Interest

Fareed Zakaria interviews Tara Westover (8/19/2019)

To Do

1. Mon, 11/04, end of class: Email me a post-workshop memo. I will email you back with my comments.
2. Wed, 11/06, Fri, 11/08, and Mon, 11/11: No class meetings! (I will be at a conference.) Spend this time developing your good first draft into an amazing second draft. Consider making an appointment at the Writing Center to talk over your work with a tutor there.
3. Tues, 11/12, 5:30 pm, Mitchell Hall: Listen to Tara Westover speak. Bring your copy of Educated. You might be able to get her to sign it!
4. Wed, 11/13, class: Discuss Westover’s talk and your work on your second essays.