This week we will transition from source acquisition to drafting.
Your homework tonight will be to 1) scan through pp. 185-196 in Everyday Writer and place post-it notes on pages you plan to use and 2) draft a body paragraph for one of your three interpretive criteria and put it on your Google Doc for Wed’s writer’s workshop.
On Friday, some of you requested some additional guidance as far as what is expected of you in writing a piece of literary interpretation. As you continue working today, you should be asking yourself the following:
1) Am I text-centered in my research?
Your focus is best when it is on the novel. You are on-track if you have completed a targeted rereading of your selected text and organized thread-related material from the selected text. Lastly, you are combining the text and your sources using a logical system that will make it easy for you to address the three interpretation criteria.
2) Am I developing my thinking about the novel in a systematic way?
Good research satisfies a curiosity that you have. As you read more deeply into your chosen text and into academic journal articles written about it, you should be systematically organizing what you'll use in support of your thinking. Remember, there is a huge difference between reporting what you find and analyzing what you find.
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