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COURSE POLICIES, GUIDELINES, AND THE WRITING FELLOWS

This is an intensive-writing course. Because the work of this course is to help you develop as a reader of Romantic poetry, I do not require or even encourage you to consult critics other than those which appear in the packet. Students will write four essays during the semester. For the first and second papers, you will work with peer writing fellows who will evaluate the finished and typed drafts of these essays and meet with you in conference to make suggestions for revision. The Writing Fellows are:

• Sophia Estante
• Jess Rao

Writing fellows do not grade essays nor do they see the final grades I give revised essays. Instead, writing fellows look for elements of structure, argument and documentation that are necessary to strong writing. I have invited them to participate in the work of this course. Because peer editing is a technique all strong writers use to polish and develop their work, it is a privilege to be able to work with writing fellows and to have them work with you. I encourage you to bring questions about the topic and content of your papers to me well before the deadlines specified in the syllabus for draft or final versions of essays. Deadlines are not negotiable. All written work must be turned in on time at the beginning of the class in which they are due. The drafts of the papers you submit for your Writing Fellow to review must be complete, polished and typed. You should imagine them to be the final version, not a preliminary attempt to write the essay. Note: be sure to bring your calendar with your draft so that you can schedule your conference time with your Writing Fellow at that time. Attach the cover sheet to your draft; I will give you these before the draft is due. When you hand in the revised paper, staple to it the draft copy with your writing fellowís comments and a brief sheet (Iíll give you the form later) in which you assess changes you made after you discussed the essay with your writing fellow).

Each written assignment should have 1î margins on all sides. Put your name and the course number and title on the top of the first page. Number pages and staple. Use parenthetical citations of poems discussed or quoted (shortened title, lines and page) or any of the critics whose work is in the packet. At the end of the papers, include a ìWork(s) Cited Page on which you list the work or works that you have cited in your text. For the Works Cited page, use the bibliographic form used in the example given below:

Blake, William. "A Poison Tree." In The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries. Ed. Susan Wolfson and Peter Manning. 2nd edn. New York: Addison-Wesley, 2002, p. 125