11/13: Writing Workshop

Instructions on how to turn in Assignment 3: When you have completed the writing process, turn in

• Draft 1 
• Reader Feedback  (first draft)
• Draft 2
• Response Paper Checklist
• Any slips proving you have visited the Writing Center (B200) or SGA Tutoring

Class 

Writing is a way to end up thinking something you couldn’t have started out thinking.
--Peter Elbow, Writing without Teachers

Writing a series of drafts allows these drafts to come together to produce an emerging “center of gravity” that then translates into the main focus on the work. This process should be a holistic process, not a linear process. Elbow’s reasoning behind this concept of multiple drafts follows the idea that, “if [the writer] learns to maximize the interaction among [their] own ideas or points of view, [s/he] can produce new ones that didn’t seem available to them.”
--From Elbow, as quoted in Wikipedia's entry for "Draft document": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_document

1. Things you should have done by now

• Get a Wikipedia account. 
• Read the prompts for Assignment 5:   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vBBfMXAu4aHFWLu6JCGgrnYRckCtwpKXbel2itjLEms/edit?usp=sharing
• Print out this form and turn it in for  me to approve:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YiM0YD2BHfUPinolJGPrirGyo79Z4BdW2VMFuTLRw3Y/edit?usp=sharing

2. Once you have my approval for your topic and thesis, for the rest of the class time

Work on Assignment 4, Assignment 5, and on your Wikipedia contribution. If you have any previous assignments you have failed, make sure you give yourself some time to revise these so they are passing.

Last drafts of ALL your assignments must be in your shared Google Drive folder.

For Homework: 

Continue with your drafting and revising. Find two readers for Assignment 5.