Low-stakes analytical, reflective, and responsive writing is going to be an important part of your learning experience this semester. In order to help you grapple with course texts and concepts, you will participate in writing for our course blog.
Beginning the first week of class, each week you will prepare a short, thoughtful, informal response to the readings or topics we’ve discussed and post it to our class blog. Sometimes these will be prompted; others will be open, exploratory responses to whatever you’d like to write about that has to do with Faulkner. Your goal is to grapple with and explain to yourself and others in the class the texts and problems we’ve dealt with that week. Include a question at the end of each post that you'd like to see someone else respond to—either in another post or in class meetings.
For full credit on this assignment, you’ll need to write one response for each week of the course: that’s fifteen responses; except in rare cases, these should be no shorter than 300 words. These may be posted before or after we discuss a particular text, but each week’s response is due no later than 5:00 pm on Friday. You’ll also need to respond to at least two of your peers’ posts within a week. As with most things, I am open to collaboration and experimentation.
