Week 5: Writer’s Portrait Draft #1 + Peer Response DiscussionDescription1200 words minimum3 sources minimum Now that you’ve submitted your Writer’s Portrait proposal, received peer feedback, and completed your meta-analysis annotations, you are now ready to begin drafting this es.say! You will attach (1) a full draft of the Writer’s Portrait to this discussion board for your peers to review and provide feedback. Please adhere to the following directions: Compose an es.say using what you discovered during your meta-analysis as the argument, which should address the question Who am I as a writer? The es.say should use cited evidence from the three texts to create and support that argument. If you’re not sure how to begin drafting after your meta-analysis, consider how evidence from your meta-analysis might help you address the prompts below: please note that you do not have to address all these prompts in your es.say, and if you do use these prompts to help you draft, be sure to reorganize your es.say during the revision process so that the structure fits your particular argument. Consider the following as you draft:
In addition to the attached draft, you need to include a 300 word author’s note in the body of this post that describes where you are in the processes of writing. This post will address your audience (your peer responders and instructor directly). You may address any of the following questions in your author’s note in the body of the discussion post:
Peer responses will include attached annotations on your peer’s pa.per as well as a 3-5 minute video response explaining what revision you recommend.
Attach your es.say (including the Works Cited section) as a single / x to this discussion board
Description
Your work in the first unit of this course builds to an essay project called a Writer Portrait. The Writer Portrait essay
explores the question ‘Who am I as a writer?’
by having you analyze texts that you’ve previously composed and then craft an essay based on your observations and realizations from this analysis. You’re invited to see what you can discover about yourself as a writer and consider how your experiences have shaped the identity you see in your writing. To craft this essay, you’ll complete the following steps:
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1. Choose a minimum of three texts you’ve written previously that you’d like to analyze. Note: you cannot write new texts now just to analyze them, as this defeats part of the purpose of the activity. To create some variety in the rhetorical situations of the texts, your three texts must cover both of the following categories:
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Compositions for an academic purpose (this could be something you wrote for a previous course, for a scholarship, for an application, to communicate with a teacher, etc.)
· Compositions for a purpose outside of coursework and school-related purposes (this could be creative writing for personal enjoyment, an email conversation with a family member, a series of social media posts, a text message thread, a journal entry, a promotion you created for an organization you’re in, etc.)
2. Print your texts and conduct a meta-analysis on all of them. Meta-analysis is just like annotating, but it’s a close reading of your own work. In a meta-analysis, you are responding to a text as a reader. The goal of this activity is to capture your reactions to your own writing so that you can gain the “distance” to develop as a more critical self-reader and, eventually, self-revisor. To complete the meta-analysis, create annotations (including markings and verbal comments) just as you would in the annotation process, and avoid the urge to revise, “fix,” or reword any of the text. Simply capture your reactions. Because you are the writer whose work you’re annotating, your meta-analysis should also consider:
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· Where are the moments your thinking became unclear in the writing? What do you think happened as you created this part of the text?
· Where are the moments you notice fabulous clarity and language for what you meant? What do you remember about how you created this part of the text?
· Identify each part of that rhetorical situation (audience, purpose, message, and so on) and how it “shows up” in the writing? How did the audience and purpose influence your choices in each text?
· What are the take-aways about this writing that you want to remember for the future?
3. Compose an essay using what you discovered during your meta-analysis as the argument, which should address the question Who am I as a writer? The essay should use cited evidence from the three texts to create and support that argument. If you’re not sure how to begin drafting after your meta-analysis, consider how evidence from your meta-analysis might help you address the prompts below: please note that you do not have to address all these prompts in your essay, and if you do use these prompts to help you draft, be sure to reorganize your essay during the revision process so that the structure fits your particular argument.
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· What are the most important observations made during the meta-analysis stage?
· What types of patterns or themes do you see connecting these three texts? Or what are the rhetorical factors that made these three texts very different?
· In which of these three rhetorical situations did you feel most comfortable composing? Why do you think that was?
· Where in these three texts did you see traces of your identity or experiences? Which forces do you think have shaped how you write?
· Which of your discoveries about yourself will be most important to you as you keep developing as a writer?
Assignment Requirements
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· To reach the level of depth expected, the essay should be no shorter than 1,200 words
· The essay and document should adhere to MLA formatting and style requirements
· You are not required to cite yourself but if you use any of our course materials, I expect to see those accurately cited per MLA formatting guidelines
· Attach your essay (including the Works Cited section) as a single / x to your assignment submission.
· See the project rubric for guidance on how it will be assessed
· Writer’s Portrait Final Draft, due Sunday 11:59 PM CST
