1. Identify a topic about which you will write your essay. Once you pick something, your topic shouldn't change, so choose something you'll enjoy writing about for the next few weeks.
2. For our next meeting (see below for individual sections' due dates), spend a minimum of 45 minutes brainstorming. Fill as many pages as possible with specific examples about your topic. Use the techniques we've been discussing in class. These include:
- Sensory details
- Names
- Facts and statistics
- Narrative
- Testimony
- Figurative language
- Concrete nouns and action verbs
3. Your goal is to produce as many ideas and details as possible without regard to coherence, neatness, or organization. Your pages may be full of scribbles and notes that only you understand. You should wind up producing a minimum of two cluttered pages, probably more. Most of what you produce will not make it into your actual essay, and that's okay. You're attempting to discover what you know--we'll worry about organization later.
4. Due dates:
- M/W: 11/19
- T/R: 11/15
- F: 11/23
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