HMHV 201
Greg Martin

Essay: Self-Evaluation: Hand this in along with your first draft.

NAME______________________

•  What is your essay about? What does your essay have to say about what it's about? (What about what it's about?) Write one sentence for each question.

•  What is the most important sentence in your essay? Quote it. Why this sentence?

•  Of the craft elements we've studied, which is the most developed in your essay? Explain.

•  Which craft element did you struggle with most in drafting this essay? How so?

•  What reading influenced you the most as you drafted this essay? (The Possessed; On Impact; Moonrise; Ofri's book of essays, Josh Sheak's alumni essay; Poster Child) How did it influence you? What did you emulate? Where specifically in your essay can I find this emulation?

•  What did you learn , as you worked on this draft, that you did not know before, about yourself or about writing?

•  What are you most proud of about this essay?

•  Veteran writers often say things like, “It's a draft until you die,” as a way of communicating how they always feel there is something else they would do with a story or essay or poem, if they could take it back. If you had five more hours, and three or four more pages, to work on this draft, how would you revise it to make it better?