We will analyze the place of objectivity, voice, character development, and setting in these works and we will discuss data collection, observation, interviewing, development of the eye, etc. Your work will first go to your rough draft group a week before the assignment is due. This group is a committee of your colleagues with whom you exchange papers, ideas, problems, and help each other reach a final draft. Always have your work ready for your rough draft group. Consider the rough draft due date as important as the final due date.
Workshops take focus and patience.
The writer has to ride out the commentary without commenting, defending, apologizing, or reacting directly to the evaluations. Each writer is given an opportunity to question or comment on the class' ideas. The focus should be the writing, not the writer, the product, not the concentrate on credibility, voice, style, etc. Each writer will be read at least twice by the whole class. Two assignments will be exchanged by other groups.