Tuesday, April 19

PWR 497

We have five writing days left after today.

We write:

• What has your progress been on your project since last Tuesday?
• What are your writing goals for today?

> and at the end of class, we return to this page and write about our accomplishments<

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Rubrics help us know we're on track.  Here is a rubric for the final project.  Hope you find it useful:

What readers want:

·      A sense of direction and development toward greater complexity.

·      A sense of investment: characters that are not “flat” or clichés, plots that surprise, images that are fresh

·      A distinct style to the piece

·      A sense of voice, of the author’s sensibility

·      A clean page, free of distracting errors (what’s “distracting” may depend on the reader, of course)

·      Length.  Readers should not want it to quit.

·      Challenge.  Though some readers are interested in reading the same thing over, most readers want to see something that challenges them to think differently.

·      A sense of quality: the parts fit together and the work is revised

     Humor, wit, insight – the mind at work helps give the work freshness