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Throughout your essay, be thorough, thoughtful, and detailed

Writing

  • Throughout your essay, be thorough, thoughtful, and detailed. Be organized and coherent. Proofread your writing. This is not an informal freewriting, this is an essay; I expect the same level of polish/professionalism that your Eng 111 and other writing professors expect.


 

Referencing work aside from your own:

  • You may cite/quote from your own creative work, or from stories, poems, and articles/handouts we’ve read in our class to help support or illustrate your points.
  • When you add quotes/paraphrases from these sources, use the "sandwich" technique:
    1. Introduce the piece you will quote. For example, "In Shirley Jackson's short story 'The Lottery'.....".
    2. Add the quote or paraphrase.
    3. Add an MLA citation, which is usually the author's last name and a page number in parentheses, like this: "quotequotequote" (Jackson 2).
    4. Explain how the quote fits into your essay's thesis.
  • DO NOT provide unnecessarily long quotes just to fill up the page. That’s bad writing.
  • Please DO NOT quote from outside sources that we did not read in this class. You are not required to do outside research for this assignment, nor do I want you to. It will not give you extra points or help your grade.


 

Answering the Reflective Essay Prompts:

  • Prompt 1
    • This is where you need to connect your ideas and your writing to what we did in class! Don't just tell me where you got your ideas in general, find a way to show me how those assignments or exercises came into play. Make it clear, name them, discuss them! Find a way to connect what you learned to what you produced for your story/poetry in order to get credit here.
  • Prompt 2
    • For this section, think back to early in the semester, when we worked on "The Creator's Subject". You were asked to identify communities that you are a part of, and let that influence your work in some way. For example, if you consider yourself a feminist, how might your work address issues or topics that women face? Or, if you are part of an international college student community, your poems/story might seek to appeal to other international students in some way that you will define in your essay, or perhaps your creative writing works to enlighten domestic students when it comes to issues that their international classmates face. Everyone will define their communities in different ways, so I cannot give you specific advice here...it is up to you to determine your communities (or target audiences) and how your creative writing reaches out to other members of that specific community. This is a challenge, I know, but you've been given the tools to help you along. I suggest that you go back into your older assignments and any journals you may have kept for this class to help you.

Write an essay that reflects on the writing process behind your creative work. I will use this essay to help me determine your grade on your “final” draft. The essay will be graded on how well you follow through on the requirements described below. In general, I’m looking for detailed answers to ALL of the prompts that clearly illustrate strong knowledge of the vocabulary terms and concepts we’ve learned throughout the semester. I’m also looking for an essay (not a freewriting exercise, or story, or poem, or Q&A) that is well-organized, focused, and free of errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

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Be sure that:

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  • Your final product is focused, well-organized, and coherent.
  • It addresses all of the prompts below.
    • Please respond to the prompts in order! They’ve been purposefully ordered to assist you in writing with a logical progression of topics.
  • You consistently illustrate and apply your knowledge of course vocabulary and concepts while addressing the prompts.
  • Formatting:
    • Include your MLA heading on the first page, your last name with page numbers in the top right corners, and a title for the Reflection essay.
    • This essay must be least 3 full pages, double spaced. (This length minimum is counted before you include the heading, title, etc.)
  • Click here for tips and advice for a successful Reflection essay.

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Reflection Essay Prompts

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  1. How did the assignments and activities we did in the first half of the semester lead you to your story/poetry? What specific things did you use from your Alien Anthropology, Creator’s Subject, or other course writing to generate the idea or subject of your story/poetry? How did you move from those original snippets of writing to a story/poetry idea to the story/poetry itself? Hint: discuss how what you learned in those assignments impacted your story/poetry, even if you didn’t use something from those assignments directly.
  2. What discourse community does your work speak to, or for? Be as specific as possible, here; I’m looking for detail and insight into how your work speaks to or for an established discourse community. Hint: that discourse community is likely your target reading audience. Think about demographics, and be specific. “Everyone” or “all college students” is much too broad. Get specific! Who are they, and why are they your preferred readers?
  3. What message do you want to send to your target readers (members of the discourse community you identified above) through your story/poetry? What are you specifically trying to say, explore, or illuminate through your story/poetry? Why is this message or subject important to you and to the readers you want to reach? Hint: It’s okay if you didn’t originally write with a specific audience in mind, but by the time you write your “final” draft, you should have revised with a good idea of who your preferred readers are (their demographics).
  4. Name at least 1-2 craft elements in your work that give it the most impact, and explain in detail what you were trying to accomplish by using those craft elements the way you did. Name the aspects of these craft elements, and discuss why you chose to focus your revisions on these specific craft elements. How do they connect back to the message you want to send to your chosen discourse community/target audience?
    1. Elements of craft for fiction writers:
      1. Plot, setting, point of view, tense, imagery, dialogue, characterization
    2. Elements of craft for poets:
      1. Rhythm, meter, rhyme, form (also line breaks, enjambment, endstops, etc.), imagery, turns (a.k.a. "voltas")

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  1. In general, how did the writing process work for you? What challenges did you face as you wrote and revised? What risks did you take? What did you learn from any “mistakes” you made along the way? How did our class’ focus on creativity and creative thinking help you to overcome the challenges you faced, take those risks, and finish your draft?

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  1. Discuss what creative thinking/innovation skills you learned in this class might be useful or necessary in your academic discipline or career field. What concepts or skills from ENG 226 can you apply in those situations to help you solve problems, answer complicated questions, or innovate new ideas or solutions? (Look through the readings and exercises from the early weeks of our class to find specific ideas, skills, activities, etc., that can help you address this question. This prompt asks you to use both critical and creative skills to apply what you’ve learned in our class to life outside of class. Creative Writing really does build skills beyond storytelling and poetry!)

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