Freshman Seminar assignments (J. Herrick)

Contributor: Jeanne Weiland Herrick, Writing Program, J-herrick@northwestern.edu.

Comments:  These are writing assignments for my freshman seminar, along with the reader response sheets we use to structure workshop responses.


INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS
Insider Essay


Here is the Assignment for your first essay, an Insider Essay.

Purpose and Audience:

The purpose of this essay is to illuminate and explain a culture (or subculture) to which you belong, from an Insider's point of view to Outsiders (those who do not belong to this culture), specifically, your classmates and a general audience of college level readers and thinkers.

Format:

This essay should be:

--4-5 pages in length

--double-spaced

--have a title that refers to the paper’s thesis

--use 1" margins

--use a 12 point type size

--use a serif type face (such as Times New Roman)

Draft due date:

Bring three hard copies to class on Tuesday, October 9, for a Writers' Workshop.  Also send me a copy in an attachment to an email, as a Word file.

Final Essay Due date:
Submit a hard copy of your essay for a grade at the beginning of class on Tuesday, October 16th.