A question....
What are the parameters of a "critical writing sample."
Am I capable of such a thing?
Am I capable of such a thing?
Thursday, July 21, 2005
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What, like for Grad School?
Yeah...
I was sortof joking, but sortof not. I haven't written a paper in years and am scared I won't be able to do this....
think catty
plus snobby
plus more snobby
about mostly dead people.
ah, critique.
If it's the critical writing sample I'm thinking of, for a well-known (if only to poets) low-res grad program, my advice:
think super-close reading, focus on one particular issue of craft, first person/informal is fine in limited doses, and think: (1) what is happening here, craft-wise? (2) what's the effect desired/achieved? And (3, optional) how/why is this important to my own work? Dead people optional.
E-mail me if you want a sample of the above sort of thing, for whatever it's worth - lisa (at) ampedit (dot) com.
badly punctuated,
Lisa
Sorry I'm late to this.
How about a critical discussion of irony? I think that'd work. . . .
OK, intuition wrong. Traditional grad program? I know nothing about such stuff. Maybe the catty thing is the way to go...
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