Sample workshop questions: discuss your answers in your
groups.
1. What is the author’s main claim? Is it stated clearly? How
could the author better highlight his central claim?
2. Does the author successfully achieve an analytical tone?
Are there any passages that seem like mere plot summary rather than analysis?
Note these passages and explain how the author might add in an analytical
component.
3. What particular formal features of the story does the
author point out and analyze? Did any of the analysis of these features feel
incomplete or under-developed? Though you have not read the story, can you
suggest any other formal features that it might be helpful for the author to
analyze?
4. How has the author attempted to grab the reader's
attention? Do you think this strategy is effective? Think back to your reaction
when you read the first few sentences of the draft… did you groan or were you
pulled in? Explain your answer in as much detail as possible.
After you discuss these questions, compose a list of THREE
things that the author should do to improve his or her draft.
Post this list and your answers to the workshop questions
in a Google Doc and be sure to share it with me. Each group should have only
one Google Doc.
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