Please bring a draft of the first assignment to class with you on Monday, Jan 11. We'll spend most of the class time reading and responding to the drafts and answering questions. If you have any questions about what you are doing over the weekend as you put the draft together, please email me or post a question here. Email is more surefire as I'm always checking it. Sometimes I forget to check the blog for questions.

Be sure to read, if you haven't done so already, the material linked to the syllabus and the material that is included as part of the assignment. I like to think that stuff will help you be more successful. In particular you should look at the sample essay, which creates a good sense of how the assignment can work, and the rubric that I used to evaluate the final product. I've attached that rubric here in the form that we'll be using in class on Monday.

Finally, the more work you put into the draft, the more others can help you and the more you can help others in the review process.