You're a writer. Now's the chance to write. The project is totally open—you may write in any genre, at any length, with collaborative partners or alone, on a project you are revising or one you are beginning anew. You may present your work in any format: a traditional paper, a film, in an electronic format, a chapbook of poetry, a newspaper, a play, a performance piece. The only limitations on your work are that it must be informed by research and you must write in order to produce the product you produce.

Purpose This project will serve several purposes:

• it gives you a chance to design and propose a major project.
• it provides you with an opportunity to pace and direct your own work.

• a reading component (a specific reading list of between 150-500 pages)
• a writing component (specific writing assignments of between 5-18 pages)
• a carefully constructed proposal in which you tell me what you will read and write, as well as when you will turn materials in and how these materials should be evaluated.
  

Note: With the exception of October 17th and 19th, I will always be available in my office on days when we are not meeting as a class.

Proposal Assignment
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