Short Analysis Workshop

Today, we will be workshopping your short analysis papers in class.
Lotus has offered her draft for review. It is an excellent first draft and we will look at this together.

Afterward, I'd like you to workshop each other's essays using the following directions/questions.

Editor's Name: (you)

Writer's Name: (author of the paper you are editing)

1)      Read the entire paper

2)      What is the thesis of the paper? Highlight this in some absurd color.

3)      Make a paragraph-by-paragraph outline. Summarize each paragraph in a single sentence.

4)      Does each paragraph support the thesis?

5)      Are there any missing pieces of information?

6)      Are the connections as clear as the writer wants them to be?

7)      What information needs to be established earlier in the paper?

8)      Mark the places where discussion steers away from the main argument.

9)      When writing about literature/film, verbs should be present tense. Mark any verbs that are not present-tense.

10)   What is the strongest/most interesting part of the paper?

11)   What is the least interesting part?

12)   Mark any moments of confusion.

13)   Email the draft AND your answers to these questions to your author and to me at jmarquar@kean.edu