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Getting & Giving Help
Unit Completion Date: End of Week 6
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I have a few rules for how we will conduct our workshops, and we will cover these rules in three steps: 1) How to prepare a manuscript for workshopping; 2) How to critique a manuscript; and, 3) What to do with the critiques you receive in workshop. Some of these rules are ones I use in my traditional classes, some are rules designed specifically for this class, and all are designed to provide us with an effective way to talk about one another's work in the most constructive manner possible.
As a starting point, you should always bring to workshop a story that you are excited about working on, and one that displays your very best efforts. Nothing is more discouraging for your fellow students than working on a story they know did not receive full effort from the writer. In preparing your story for workshop, please follow all of the following steps:
- First, insure that the work is free of typographical, grammatical, and spelling errors. These interrupt the experience of reading the work and break the "vivid and continuous dream," to use Gardner's words.
- Second, submit only the story itself, without any prefacing or explanatory information. If you haven't been able to convey something within the story, and you know it, then you already have some sense of what needs to be accomplished in redrafting.
- Third, submit your story to me as an attached file. I know I've cautioned against this for exercises, but in the case of story drafts, I'd like to eliminate as many formatting edits as possible for myself. I'd prefer (it pains me to say) some sort of MS Word document. Failing that, attempt to save the story as RTF (Rich-text format), an option that most word processing programs offer. If that doesn't work, send me whatever you have.
- Fourth, prepare a one-page critical reflection addressing your experience of writing the story. This will be submitted to me only and not posted for your classmates. Discuss where the idea for the story came from, whether you wrote the story from beginning to end or started somewhere in the middle. Tell me what you saw as the biggest challenges in drafting the story and how successful you were in meeting those challenges. Identify what you see at this point as being the three things you would most like to address in rewriting the story. Submit both your story critical reflection and your story draft using the submit response link below.
Help Exercise 2 - Submit Response
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