Assignment Instructions/ Description
Read: Roxane Gay, "Bad Feminist Download Bad Feminist"Read: Annie Dillard, "Heaven and Earth in Jest" (IW, pp. 28-29)Read: Lee Gutkind, "The 5 Rs of Creative Nonfiction Download The 5 Rs of Creative Nonfiction" (WC)Review: Burroway, Ch. 8 "Creative Nonfiction" (IW, pp. 231-233)Optional Read: K.B. Carle, "Hello, My Name Is Marley...Links to an external site." (WC)(2) Evaluate:�compose a 400+ word response to these essays. Try to apply Burroway's craft advice and elements that she introduces in Chapter 8. How does Gay and Dillard introduce research? How do these essays deal with memory? If you were to assign these essays to a particular form or forms, which do you think they would belong to? Why? How does the topic "research" get addressed in my lecture video? What was surprising or new to hear? Discuss any additional elements you think the essays were doing well that you'd like to try in your own work.�(100+ words) Imitation options:�(a)�Write about the loss of a friendship you have experienced, whether by anger, change, death, moving away�whatever reason. Use the skills you have to create the characters of both yourself and the friend you lost. Speculate on what this loss teaches you about yourself, or about your life, or about life in general.�OR(b) Use the Lynda Berry Daily Diary from my lecture to write the seven things you "did" and "saw" today, then add one thing that you "heard," then add a drawing (or choose a vivid word to sum up the day) for the fourth square. You can write this out and upload a picture of the daily diary entry or you can type this out and use that.�