Writer's Notes

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ENGl 111 English Composition
Dr. Julie Barak Fall 1998


	On this page, you'll find several different kinds of suggestions for composing a writer's note. You can use these prompts if you need to, but you can also write this note completely on your own. The main idea here is that you tell your reader what you wanted to accomplish with your draft, where you think you were successful and where you think you still need to do some work. You can also use this note to tell your reader what kind of help you'd like. Do you need help with the introduction? With developing a character? Would you like your reader to sketch a scene for you? To tell you what doesn't feel right to them? Get the feedback you want by bein very explicit in this note about what you need and expect from your reader.

		Writer's Note Suggestions a.Why did you choose the title you did? What does it say about your draft? How does it establish and limit your subject? How does it set the voice or tone of the piece? b.Describe the hook you used in the first paragraph of your essay. (question, dialogue, facts, scene, quote, tension or conflict, image, etc.) Why do you think this is a particularly compelling way to attract and keep your reader's attention? c.What was the main purpose of this essay? What did you want to accomplish by telling it? d.Which of the writing exercises helped you the most in writing this draft (looking for details, focusing through tension, titles as ways to focus)? Is any of that writing a part of the draft? Where? e.Which of the readings from the text influenced this essay? Did you model your essay on any of them or think about how any one of those writers had presented their ideas when you were writing your own essay? f.What was the hardest part about writing this draft? What was the easiest? What seems to you to be most effective in the piece? Why? Where are you stuck or unhappy about the piece? If you had more time, what would you keep working on.