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ReadingsChoose one story, OR one poem from the list below for your Craft Essay. Select a reading that will challenge you to explore writing craft in great detail, and work that you can learn from and apply to your own creative writing in this class.Poetry choices:Joy Harjo, “Everyone Has a Heartache: A Blues (链接到外部网站。)”Marge Piercy, “It Ain’t Heavy, It’s My Purse (链接到外部网站。)”Sylvia Plath, “Mirror (链接到外部网站。)”James Valvis, “Here in America (链接到外部网站。)”Lafayette Wattles, “There Was Something Mean in the World That I Couldn’t Stop (链接到外部网站。)”Sally Wen Mao, “Resurrection (链接到外部网站。)”Fiction choices (short stories):Louise Erdrich, “Saint Marie (链接到外部网站。)” William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily (链接到外部网站。)”Mo Yan, “Soaring (链接到外部网站。)”Ken Liu, “Paper Menagerie (链接到外部网站。)”Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (链接到外部网站。)”John Updike, “A&P (链接到外部网站。)Purpose:The Craft Essay assignment will give you the opportunity to practice reading like a writer, and to apply your skills and knowledge in the craft of writing to one story or poem from the Midterm Reading List.You will use the knowledge you’ve developed about lateral thinking, observation, and especially the elements of craft we’ve learned so far to practice reading like a writer. Through looking deeply at how another writer has used these skills and craft elements, you will learn even more about how you can apply those skills and elements of craft to you own creative writing later in the course.What to Do:Step 1If you haven’t already, choose one story OR one poem from the list on the Craft Essay Reading List page that you’d like to write about.Step 2Open up a new .doc/.docx file. Name it “Lastname_MidtermEssay’, using your own name instead of “Lastname”.Set your font to 12 pt Times New Roman.Add your last name and page numbers to the top right headers for each page (see the syllabus if you need help for that).Add an MLA heading to the top left of the first page (see the syllabus for help if you need it).Add a title for your essay. It should be centered on the page. “Midterm Exam: Craft Essay” is fine, but see if you can apply your creative thinking skills to come up with something better!The rest of the essay should be left aligned and double spaced.Step 3Carefully craft a thoughtful, detailed, insightful 3-4 page response to the prompts listed below. Your response is a formal essay, not a freewriting exercise or a simple Q&A. Pay attention to things like organization, focus, coherency, spelling/grammar, etc.Making Connections: 1/2-3/4 pageLooking at the story or poem as a whole, what observations do you think the writer may have used as inspiration? Where do you see this in the story/poem itself, or why do you think this? How is the writer using that observation here to explore a bigger idea or make a bigger statement? What is the *take away*?Why might that idea or statement (or take away) be important to people such as yourself?
Your answer to this prompt will act as a thesis statement for the essay.Tips for this section:Be sure to reference the title of the short story or poem as well as the writer’s name within the first few sentences. Refer to the writer by their last name throughout the rest of the essay, and use the appropriate pronouns for the writer, too. (Google them if you’re unsure.)You should not summarize or recap the short story or poem that you’ve chosen to write about. Assume that your reader has already read the short story or poem, and does not need a big info-dump to remind them. Dig deep! If you feel the author is using observation of a “something” to make a statement about “love”, what is that something, and what kind of love is the writer making a point about? Don’t just say “love”; get specific.Exploring Craft: 2+ PagesFor this section, you will focus on 1-2 elements of craft that you have learned about in this Module.If you are writing about a short story, pick 1-2 of the following to discuss:plot (链接到外部网站。)characterization (链接到外部网站。)setting (链接到外部网站。)imagery (链接到外部网站。)point of view and/or tense (链接到外部网站。)If you write about a poem, pick 1-2 of the following to discuss:form (链接到外部网站。)imagery (链接到外部网站。)rhyme, rhythm, and meter (链接到外部网站。)Prompts:Working with 1-2 elements of craft from the list above, discuss how the writer uses them within the short story or poem you are writing about.We know the writer could have chosen to use the craft elements differently. Why do you think these craft elements are important? How do these specific craft elements help the message or statement you determined in the intro section to come forth?Show what you’ve learned about these specific craft elements that you’re choosing to discuss. Use the terminology you learned from the handouts/lessons generously! Go deep here. Use your lateral thinking skills to connect the observations and meaning to why the writer used craft in the way they did.What questions about story/poetry craft do your observations of this writer’s use of craft raise for you, and why? For example, does the story make you wonder about how characterization can/should be introduced in a story, or about effective plot resolutions? Does the poem make you wonder about where/how to craft a “turn” (which is the poetic equivalent to the climax in a short story) or what makes for an effective rhyme scheme?Keep your questions confined to craft here; they should be ones with an answer that you can determine through looking at craft, rather than random questions about the writer’s personality, plot points you didn’t understand in the story (“why did the character kidnap the baby?”), etc.Tips for this section:Quote and paraphrase from the story/poem itself to illustrate your points. Use MLA citations to show where your quotes/paraphrases came from. (See below for more info on citations.)Do not discuss poetry-based craft elements if you are writing about a short story (or vice versa).Do not discuss other literary terms in lieu of the craft elements you are being ‘tested’ on here. Don’t write about “personification” instead of “imagery”, for example; “personification” is not on the list of elements we studied (it is a literary device (链接到外部网站。); don’t confuse the two categories)!If you’d like to tackle a craft element that is not present in the piece you’ve chosen, discuss how the author’s choice to not use that craft element is working to illuminate the statement or message. For instance, if you want to discuss plot in a short story, but that story isn’t following the Freytag’s Pyramid structure, you can still discuss everything you know about Freytag’s Pyramid, then determine how the message comes forth despite being written in a different structure.Drawing Conclusions: 1/2+ page What does the work teach or show you about how stories/poems are written? How does it help answer the questions you raised above? How did this reading, and the writing of this essay, help you to see how writers use observation and work with specific craft elements to create meaning or make statements?How do you plan to apply what you’ve learned from reading this story or poem and writing this essay to the story/poetry you’re planning to write for our class? Alternatively, if this writer’s use of an element of craft isn’t at all how you’d want to use that element of craft in your own story or poetry, why is that, and how have you come to that conclusion by analyzing its use?Citations:You will not need any outside resources for this assignment beyond the story or poem you are choosing to work with. You will not need a Works Cited page this time. However, You MUST use MLA in-text citations when quoting/paraphrasing from the story or poem that you are writing about. When quoting or paraphrasing from a story, simply add a basic MLA in-text citation to the end of the quoted sentence with the page number in parentheses. If writing about a poem, add the line number when referencing certain lines so that your reader can follow along. Examples:Short story: Oates’ opens the story with one short sentence: “Her name was Connie”(1).Poem: In line 1 of “Hanging Fire”, the speaker of Lorde’s poem states “I am fourteen”.