Wednesday's Workshop

We will not be meeting in the class this Wednesday, BUT we will be workshopping each other's interpretive essay drafts. The discussion board is setup with the same groups as last time, and you will need to post your draft (in a compatible format--.doc, .docx, or .pdf) by 6pm. After you have posted your draft, you will read your partner's draft--I will list the partners in the D2L discussion forum--and response with at least 250 words of written feedback (not line-edited corrections). I will post to the content section of D2L a list of questions to consider when providing feedback.

Feedback must be posted in response to the discussion board by 11:59pm CST on Wednesday, March 4th. Posts made after that will not be considered for your participation grade. In order to receive full credit for the rough draft, you need to have at least 2 full pages of text, plus a Works Cited page. In order to receive full credit for the workshop, you need to have posted your draft by 6pm and have posted at least 250 words of feedback before midnight.

I have an example of a previous student's Interpretive essay in the content section of D2L for you to reference. Remember: this paper needs to include a brief summary of the story or poem being analyzed, it needs to have a central interpretive claim, there needs to be evidence from the text used to support the interpretations, and there needs to be connections made to examples outside the text (other works by the writer, critical/scholarly reviews, connections to news stories or other research). If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.