Assignment 1: Writing Project Analysis
Writing Project 1: Conceptualizing an Idea
The goal of your first major writing project is to connect your experience to an abstract idea or concept. The idea or concept you work with can be one that has developed out of your shorter writing assignments and readings for Sequence 1, but it can also be something new. In this project, you are free to incorporate the stories you developed from those earlier short assignments. Of course, if you use material from any earlier assignment, you will need to revise and reshape it so that it effectively communicates your idea. Your final draft of this project will be 4 to 6 pages.
Organizing questions:
How can I use my personal experience to examine larger issues in a compelling way? What lessons has my experience taught me …show more content…
This option is different from the mixed-genre essay because you will probably focus mostly on your experiences and reflection about these experiences, and will also use a more conventional narrative as you tell this personal story—something with a beginning, middle, and end. While you may build upon earlier assignments, this piece should be significantly different as you reframe your experience, add more reflection, and maybe even remember differently or from different perspectives. Example: Ramadani and Mumford essays in CCC. Note: The latter assignment will likely be more liberal in what you can get away with. From many of the proposals that I gathered in class, I think many of you will have room to do what you need to do under these two options. In general, I think it is helpful when writing a narrative essay to simply take in a variety of examples, then emulate them. I want these prompts to be fairly elastic, giving you room to write your best personal essay without leaving you totally unmoored.
Portfolio and Writer’s
The goal of your first major writing project is to connect your experience to an abstract idea or concept. The idea or concept you work with can be one that has developed out of your shorter writing assignments and readings for Sequence 1, but it can also be something new. In this project, you are free to incorporate the stories you developed from those earlier short assignments. Of course, if you use material from any earlier assignment, you will need to revise and reshape it so that it effectively communicates your idea. Your final draft of this project will be 4 to 6 pages.
Organizing questions:
How can I use my personal experience to examine larger issues in a compelling way? What lessons has my experience taught me …show more content…
This option is different from the mixed-genre essay because you will probably focus mostly on your experiences and reflection about these experiences, and will also use a more conventional narrative as you tell this personal story—something with a beginning, middle, and end. While you may build upon earlier assignments, this piece should be significantly different as you reframe your experience, add more reflection, and maybe even remember differently or from different perspectives. Example: Ramadani and Mumford essays in CCC. Note: The latter assignment will likely be more liberal in what you can get away with. From many of the proposals that I gathered in class, I think many of you will have room to do what you need to do under these two options. In general, I think it is helpful when writing a narrative essay to simply take in a variety of examples, then emulate them. I want these prompts to be fairly elastic, giving you room to write your best personal essay without leaving you totally unmoored.
Portfolio and Writer’s