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Hello, WR 323 Participants, Welcome to our Week 4 Discussion! As mentioned in our Schedule, your reading assignment for this week is the following: The guidelines for your Lyric Essay Crafting the Personal Essay, Chapters 7 and 8 Andrew Jason Jacono, "Marlowe" (Links to an external site

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Hello, WR 323 Participants,

Welcome to our Week 4 Discussion!

As mentioned in our Schedule, your reading assignment for this week is the following:

• The guidelines for your Lyric Essay
• Crafting the Personal Essay, Chapters 7 and 8
• Andrew Jason Jacono, "Marlowe" (Links to an external site.) (Cleaver magazine)
• Fleda Brown, "Home Bodily Repair Kit" (Links to an external site.)  (Links to an external site.)(Brevity magazine)

General posting guidelines this week: Please post a Primary Post in response to the discussion topic(s) below; as well as a thoughtful Reply to another person's post. You may write your primary post and reply in either order. One post is due by Thursday, and one is due by Sunday. Each post is worth 10 points, for a total of 20 points. 

To ensure a cordial style, please remember to greet your classmates and sign your name in your posts.

Specific Guidelines for this Discussion

Note: This discussion topic has two parts. Please respond to them both in your primary post.

Part A:

In Chapter 8, "Writing the Lyric Essay," Dinty W. Moore writes, "Words are beautiful in and of themselves. The shriek of gulls. The scuttling of a crab. The imbrication of wave onto shore" (98, my emphasis).

And in Chapter 7, "Pursuing Mental Rabbits," Moore states that "the unstructured feel of the essay is an illusion. Successful writers revised and revise and revise until the words and the sentences and the paragraphs ( . . . ) seem to fall naturally into place" (78, my emphasis). 

Please choose one of the two lyric essays we read this week--Fleda Brown's "Home Bodily Repair Kit" (Links to an external site.) or Andrew Jason Jacono's "Marlowe" (Links to an external site.)--to focus on. Please choose a passage from the essay that demonstrates Moore's idea that words in themselves are beautiful, and discuss the passage briefly--why it stands out to you.

Then, please talk about how Brown or Jacono writes an essay that is more than just beautiful words; the author also shows a carefully considered approach to organizing the essay, putting it together.

Citing your source(s): If you refer specifically in your post to Brown's  or Jacono's essay, or any other published writing, please cite your source(s). Please refer to the guidelines in Format for Citing Sources in Your Writings.

Part B:

After reading Your Lyric Essay: Guidelines, please write descriptively about your plans for your Lyric Essay. You might start by talking about the item you are hoping to lyrically evoke for your readers.

As you write your post about your plans for your Lyric Essay, please be sure to draw on ideas you've been reading about in Crafting the Personal Essay, especially Chapters 7 ("Pursuing Mental Rabbits" and 8 ("Writing the Lyric Essay"). 

One way you might write about your developing Lyric Essay is by talking about how you hope to keep your readers' needs in mind as you enjoy the language and poetry that arises from contemplating this item in your home. How do you plan to leave your "'bread crumbs in the forest' so that the reader can follow along" (Moore 95)?

Citing your source(s): If you refer specifically in your post to Moore's book, or any other published writing, please cite your source(s). Please refer to the guidelines in Format for Citing Sources in Your Writings.

Best wishes for contributing to this discussion!

Sincerely,
Jennifer Love

Works Cited

Moore, Dinty W. Crafting the Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Nonfiction. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 2010.