11.15 Clarification about dates and conferences

I have had conferences with many of you - to talk through essay 3/4 drafts and about revisions, etc.

Remaining conferences:

Wednesday, 11.16
2:00 Lauren Frisoli
2:20 Catherine Roth
2:40 Neiha Bhandari
3:00
3:20Nicole Dreste

In class I talked about craft essays - about using them as a way to think about your own writing - and I introduced the fact that you will be turning in your work as an electronic portfolio - and that it will be introduced with a kind of craft essay where you write about the work in your portfolio in terms of its craft, its ethics, and your intentions.

We also agreed that this blog would list the due dates for all the many projects that have accumulated over the term. You will have most of the remainder of class days to workshop/develop your writing, and to listen to presentations by classmates. I will provide the assignment sheets for the reflective/craft essay and for the portfolio on 11/17 and 11.22, respectively..

Due dates for the rest of the term

11.17 Revised Essay 1/2 I essay

11.29 Revised Essay 3/4 Eye essay

12.1 Draft writing for reflective/craft essay (posted on blog for in-class discussion)

12.6 Rhetorical analysis of publiation venue (posted on blog)

12.13 Complete portfolio

12.15 Final performance, reading

For class Thursday:

Read: Joan Didion, "On keeping a notebook" 340; and Lee Gutkind, "The creative nonfiction police," 349.

Write: a description of your writing that will indicate characteristics of the kinds of journals that will "like" your work

You have spent some time looking at/analyzing publication venues. This blog is kind of the reverse of the rhetorical analysis assignment. Do an analysis of YOUR WORK = what is your style? what are the politics? how would you classify your subject material? length? and any other feature that you think might be a good indicator of what makes your work unique.