Full-class Workshops

You are required to sign up for a time to have your writing be the focus of a full-class workshop. This workshop is essential for the development of your writing and the status of your grade. For this full-class workshop, you must photocopy and distribute to everyone in the class a typed copy of your essay draft during the class period prior to the one in which the writing will be critiqued. Come to class with your working draft copied and ready to hand out. Although this writing may be a draft, it must also be sufficiently developed that the class will enjoy working on it. If you have questions about this, just ask me. Please note: if you should fail to hand your writing out to everyone in the class on the date you sign up for, you will not be given an alternate date. Deadlines must be met; otherwise the class will be left with less to think about and discuss for that day.

As a reader of workshop drafts, you will receive a participation grade that reflects how you make every effort to respond to your peers' writing. You will receive drafts from your classmates prior to the workshop, and it is your responsibility to make as many written suggestions and comments on that draft as possible so that the writer will have concrete ideas for revision. We will learn in class how to make these suggestions and comments. Failing to provide a considerable number of quality responses for the writer or failing to respond at all is inappropriate for this class.

Workshop Dates

The selection of dates is on a first-come, first-served basis, so you should e-mail me as soon as possible with your request. I will post your names as soon as I get them. There is a limit of three persons per date.