Class, Thurs, 10/20

Developing a Thick Description of a Project of Repair

Workshop Groups

Please read your beginning drafts aloud and get feedback from your group members. At the end of this session, I will ask you add at least 200 words to your description.

At this point the key question for each of you as a writer is: How do I move from 500 to 1000 words? I want you think about doing this not through adding examples but rather by saying more about each example you’re writing about. And so I’d like readers to consider:

• How fully and well does this writer describe the thing that is being repaired?
• How fully and well do they describe the person doing the repair?
• What particular problems or challenges in repair do they describe?

Note what the writer does well and where you’d like to hear more.

Fastwrite

Add 200 words to your current description.

Writing Geek

Punctuating Quotations: Logical Punctuation vs. American Style.

Handout

 

To Do

1. Mon, 10/24, 4:00 pm: Post e2d1, a 1,000-word description of a project of repair, to your group Google Drive folder. Title your document “lastname e2d1.docx”.
2. Tues, 10/25, class: Read your group members’ e2d1s before class. I will ask each group to choose one piece to be presented to the class as a whole on Thursday.
3. Tues, 10/25, class: Read the first three essays (Dawson, DiUbialdi, McNulty) in the 2016 issue of Arak Journal. Be read to talk about (a) how the writer describes a particular topic they want to write about, and (b) the stance they take toward that topic.