ELEMENTS
1. What I hope/What I
fear/What I am still learning about writing and/or my humanity (same thing
really) – reflective intro / DO THIS LAST... a final short personal essay (see BELOW).
2. (W)reading response to
a piece that inspired [or repelled you instructively] this term. How does it do
what it does?
3. ALL your glosses - that you wrote/not that you received (gathered from the
discussion board)
4. mimimum 2500 words of
nonfiction – any form – no maximum (your *best* work followed by your *best*
revisioning.)
HARDCOPIES due Friday
March 17th in my mailbox (5th floor MacAlister)
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A. Organize/Design your portfolio in a way that is meaningful to you (Create a Table of Contents if you like). Think of this as an object whose presentation is ALSO a form.
B. Read through your work (yes! again) and think about the various processes you went through this semester.
C. Write a FINAL PERSONAL ESSAY about yourself and your work (500-750). You may choose to write this in any style/form you see fit (use in class writings/true-lies/lists/GIF metaphors/letters if you like)—first or third person... formal, informal… etc.
D. ASK yourself what you learned about your self as a writer and as a human being this term. Feel free to address these issues (options, always options):
- The (w)reading (professional and craft-oriented and your peers’)
- The (w)riting (see how I did that?) It *IS* ritualistic, I swear.
- The critiquing (as peer-partner and as line-editor/as a critiquer and as a critiquee)
- The resistance and the revision
*Maybe don't use easy phrases such as “I’ve learned a lot about....” and “I have improved as a writer because...” Instead, point me to the places of interest in your writing, your FAVORITE places. Talk to them, not about them.
Take responsibility for the work you did this semester. Offer compliments to peers whose work was particularly valuable to your process (! please please please !), and ask yourself what you might have done to suck more marrow from the bones of this class and the world. Candid, constructive, and generous critique is what I am looking for. No blowing of the smoke.
Best of luck, swimmers.
