WritingWorkshops

Welcome, AHS Foundation Faculty! Please use this page to book your AHS Foundation Writing Workshops for Fall, 2007.

I created this wiki page with the goal of saving everyone time in booking and preparing for workshops. Please feel free to contact me directly via email ( gillian.epstein@olin.edu) if you have any questions, need to customize an offering more specifically, or have a scheduling concern. I will check this wiki daily, and email you an Outlook appointment to confirm your workshop and to initiate any planning we need to do together.

For a look at materials used in workshops past, please visit WritingWorkshopContent

I look forward to collaborating with you! --Gillian

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Guidelines for workshops

• Workshops may be booked for any open Tuesday between 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

• Standard workshops are one hour: please let me know if you require more time.

• For type of workshop, please book a thesis, evidence, or close reading workshop. If you require a different topic, please let me know.

• Please do not book more than a total of two workshops.

• Keep in mind that you will need to assign your students some type of preparatory writing for their workshop (e.g., sample thesis statement, rough draft of a paper, written paragraph using evidence, written close reading of a line of poetry).

How to schedule your workshop

1. Find your name in the alphabetized list below

2. Next to the first bullet, edit the text to choose a date and time for your workshop (e.g., Tuesday 9/16; 11-12). Please check this wiki to make sure your date and time has not already been chosen by another AHS professor.

3. Next to the second bullet, edit the text to choose a topic for your workshop (e.g., Thesis Workshop)

4. Next to the third bullet, edit the text to write your preparatory assignment type and due date (e.g., draft of 3-page analysis paper; due 9/8). Allow a minimum of two days between your preparatory assignment deadline and your actual workshop date

5. Next to the fourth bullet, list the required reading for your assignment (e.g., "Where am I?," essay by Daniel C. Dennett)

Or....look through this wiki, email me your info, and I will enter it into the wiki for you!

How to use this wiki

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Hassan Abbas: Booked for 10/2 and 11/13 reschedule

HA Workshop One

• Proposed date and time: Tuesday, October 2, 3-4 pm

• Workshop topic: (Thesis workshop)

• Preparatory assignment type and due date: (Thesis Developing out of a close analysis of a passage, due September 27)

• Relevant reading: Taliban by Ahmed Rashid (Yale University Press, 2000), pages 143-216

HA Workshop Two

• Proposed date and time: Thursday, November 1, 11-12 am

Rescheduled for 11/13

• Workshop topic: Evidence

• Preparatory assignment type and due date: how to choose internal evidence supporting a thesis derived from "Iran Awakening" assignment due on October 28 - TBA

• Relevant reading: Iran Awakening By Shrin Ebadi (pages 3-127)

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Ellen Argyros: Booked for 9/25 and 10/18

EA Workshop One

• Proposed date and time: Tuesday, September 25th 3:50-4:50 p.m.

• Workshop topic: thesis

• Preparatory assignment type and due date: thesis developing out of a close analysis of a passage, due Sept. 20

• Relevant reading: "Much Ado about Nothing" (specific passage TBA)

EA Workshop Two

• Proposed date and time: Thursday, October 18th 11-11:50 a.m.

• Workshop topic: evidence

• Preparatory assignment type and due date: how to choose internal evidence supporting a thesis derived from "Twelfth Night," due Oct. 15

• Relevant reading: "Twelfth Night" (specific thesis TBA)

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Diana Dabby: Booked for 11/8 and 11/15; (Additional workshop: 11/6)

DD Workshop One

• Proposed date and time: Thurs Nov 8

• Workshop topic: thesis

• Preparatory assignment type and due date: draft thesis statement, due Nov. 6

• Relevant reading: Amadeus by Peter Shaffer

DD Workshop Two

• Proposed date and time: Thurs Nov 15

• Workshop topic: evidence

• Preparatory assignment type and due date: draft evidence in support of Amadeus thesis, due Nov 13

• Relevant reading: Amadeus above

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Helen Donis-Keller: Booked for 10/4 and 10/25

HS Workshop One

• Proposed date and time: Thursday 11-12 p.m., October 4th

• Workshop topic: thesis

• Preparatory assignment type and due date: Due on Monday, October 1st. Develop a thesis statement for the documentary assignment

• Relevant reading/viewing: "The Intimacy of Strangers" by Eva Weber (in Full Frame Documentary Shorts Volume 5 available in the Olin library)

HS Workshop Two

• Proposed date and time: Thursday 11-12 p.m., October 25th

• Workshop topic: evidence

• Preparatory assignment type and due date: due on Monday October 22th. Write a one page essay that supports a thesis statement with evidence for the documentary assignment

• Relevant reading (viewing): Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, a documentary by Errol Morris available in the Olin Library

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Barbara Goldoftas: Booked for 9/27 and 10/25

BG Workshop One

• Proposed date and time: (Thursday 11-12 p.m. September 27)

• Workshop topic: (thesis)

• Preparatory assignment type and due date: draft of analysis paper, due on September 25

• Relevant reading: about 40 pages from excerpts by Jacobs, Colgrove, and Marsh

BG Workshop Two

• Proposed date and time: (Thursday custom time October 25, Close Reading)

• Workshop topic: (close reading)** Talk by Oct. 1st about reading and format

• Preparatory assignment type and due date: (due at least two days prior to workshop)

• Relevant reading:

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Christina Shea: Booked for 9/20; 10/22

CS Workshop One

• Proposed date and time: (Thursday, September 20, 11-12 p.m.)

• Workshop topic: (thesis)

• Preparatory assignment type and due date: (thesis writing practice due Mon, Sept 17)

• Relevant reading:

• In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction -–Looking for Emmett Till by John Edgar Wideman • You’ve Got to Read -- The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges • Poetry Coursepack: “Happiness” by Jane Kenyon, p.20///”Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation” by Stanley Kunitz, p.1

CS Workshop Two

• Proposed date and time: 10/22

• Workshop topic: (evidence)

• Preparatory assignment type and due date: (first Annotated Journal due to you Oct 18)

• Relevant reading: will vary depending on student choices

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