[ENGL 1500] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 23 pages long Study Guide!
29 Mar 2017
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ENGL 1500
FINAL EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Workshops
o The workshop dynamic is based on reciprocity
If ou do’t offer oets to our peers, the o’t feel opelled to
do the same for you
o Also ased o the priiple that ritig is reisio
o Reveal how collaborative writing is or can be
o Behind eer estseller is a tea of ideal readers, editors, agets, puliists,
all of whom contribute to the final product
o Writing can be solitary, yes; but editing and publishing is often a team effort
How to comment on writing (creative or otherwise)
o Identify a strength + why
o Identify an area that could use some improvement; indicate how this could be
improved
o Identify and insight/inspiration (ex. What did this writing teach you about
life/human nature/ your own writing, moving forward etc.)
Less is ore
o Saying the most with the least
o This does’t ea that eah ord is soli. Rather, ords are hose i
deference to supporting the characters, mood, setting, and any other element
that builds the world of the story. Sometimes a rose is just a rose
o Limit adjectives and adverbs, modifiers that describe nouns and verbs,
respectively
Instead, choose strong, specific nouns and verbs, those which stand on
their own.
He alked arefull = He rept/tiptoed
He looked at her suspiiousl = He srutiized/eed her
The thik, sturd tree = The oak/redood tree
His sall, oe-floor house = His ugalo
o All words count, even the title
Popular Mechanics was a magazine designed for men back in the day
Magazie aout fiig thigs ut this dude a’t fix relationship
Francine Prose
o An author and essayist
o American
o Known for Reading as a Writer and The Blue Angel (about a creative writing
professor and his student)
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Can creativity be taught?
o Let your teachers be the books/poems you read
Line Editing
o Focuses on the language
o As opposed to a copy edit = editing for grammar, syntax
Close Reading
o Read text as a self-contained, self-referential entity, not determined by the
author’s iograph or soio-political position
o Look into a text for meaning; not outside of it
o A formalist method of reading a text
Anton Chekhov
o Born in Russia in 1860
o A medical doctor, short story writer, playwright, and essayist
o The Lad ith the Dog is his ost faous stor
o Died in 1904
o Massively influential on how contemporary literature and the short story
developed
Chekhov vs. Carver
o Spare, economical language
o Eerda, real-life characters
o Observed characters rather than judged them
o Full-realized the potential of the short-story form
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Document Summary
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