RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Assignments

Revising by Finding New Forms for Your Assignment

  1. Write your paper as a poem. A short poem is fine for this assignment. What details do you include? What do you leave out?

  2. Rewrite your draft as the story of your discovery about your subject. Do you find it easier to make your paper flow with this narrative format? How might you include strategies of narrative in your paper? (adapted from Kenneth Burke)

  3. Write your paper as a dialogue between you and anyone else: your teacher, a parent, a therapist, a jailbird. What kinds of questions, comments, resistance and agreement occur? How might you anticipate these reactions in your paper?

  4. Write a letter to your teacher about your paper. Then write a letter back to yourself in the voice of your teacher in response. Are you surprised by the way your "teacher" responded to you?