Work from this
or other courses that students have volunteered to share. These are
not necessarily examples of "strong" work (but most of them
are), nor are they intended to be models of the assignments you're working
on--I revise the assignments constantly. At this point, these texts
are presented as stand-alone pieces of writing.
Having
said that, I am focusing most of my upcoming website-revision on this
portion of the site. I'm going to try to include explanatory introductions
with each piece, some "stepped" drafts, and possibly some
clearly "developing" essays. I think if I set this up very
carefully I can avoid the "paint-by-the-numbers" drafts and
bland conformity I used to get when I did a lot of modeling. I think
the whole reason some of these essays are so cool is precisely because
the writers of them had the freedom to explore their unique voices,
so I remain pretty ambivalent about modeling, despite it being pretty
much bog-standard English-teacher pedagogy. I just can't stand getting
essays written by students who are obviously trying to find the correct
"formula." What I want is that you all explore your ideas
authentically in a negotiation with an assignment rather than anxious
conformity to it.
These documents will open in a new window, and
they're all over the place format-wise. I'm gradually getting everything
standardized and tidied, but it's slow going.
