A divider tabbed for In-Class Writing . These can of course be handwritten, in ink, but should be legible in order for you to get credit. Grammar and spelling won't count against you here, and if you end up writing something personal and don't want me to read it, fold the paper over and staple it. Each response should be at least three full paragraphs long. They can, of course be longer.
Freewriting assignments have no specified length.
The assignments are constructed to bring you into dialog, to encourage critical thinking and to help you develop as writers through introduction of concepts of rhetoric, various techniques of prewriting, writing and revising, and by demonstrating through the course content the power of words to shape reality. By the end of the semester, I hope to have demonstrated to you in the course of things, the power of literature and rhetoric to shape history, memory and concepts in the popular imagination. It is my contention that The South is entirely constructed. It is also my intention to bring into conversation voices that have been seen critically as disparate. The the Southern canon often does not include many female or African-American voices, though this is changing.