However, you will each produce three finished papers as a portfolio of your best work. Although I hope to inspire you to become passionate, joyful readers, it is care and practice, not brilliant lectures, that will teach you to write. Weekly conferences for each student are a requirement for the Writing Seminar. Conference hours will be set up during the first week. Conferences last no longer than 20-30 minutes.
Extra time is always available during office hours.
Revision is not punishment. We revise everything in this class, because all effective writing is rewriting. The best thing you can do for yourself as a writer is to learn what revision can accomplish. A good revision reflects a major rethinking of your paper, and results in significant change of focus or strategy. In other words, revision means more than simply correcting grammatical errors and spelling, or rearranging paragraphs.