Write out a minimum of three-to-four-sentence responses to each question. Be
sure to explain how your assumptions will affect writing decisions you will make as you write your narrative.
Sentences should be specific and grammatically correct. The audience sheet
is worth 10pts. Formatting: 12pt, TNR
Cut and paste the publication information and the questions (below) into a Word
doc and then draft responses to questions. You do not need to copy the
directions.
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Imagine you are writing your narrative for a publication called the UWSP Student Writers Magazine.
This publication accepts essays, fiction and nonfiction, from all UWSP
students and focuses on all topics. The essays are not research based.
Although students from all majors contribute submissions, a larger number of
English and humanities majors submit essays. Also, juniors and seniors tend
to contribute more often than freshers and sophomores.
In addition to students who read this magazine, faculty, staff, administrators,
and members of the Stevens Point community also read it.
Write out responses to the following questions.
- Given your audience, how will readers relate to and connect to your essay? For example, will students relate to your essay the same way that faculty will? Will first-year students relate the same ways as senior readers? How will you connect readers (specific writing decisions you make) to a shared sporting experience without boring them with an all-too-familiar story? Consider, for example, how you will present your conflict. Your specific thoughts and emotions that develop the conflict?
- How will your readers react to an essay about a sports experience? What preconceptions will they have about sports? About the specific sport you are writing about? How will these preconceptions affect your essay? Will they know the sport you are writing about? For example, what information will you need to include? How will you address the notion that sport is a microcosm of life?
- What do you want readers to learn, understand, or feel after reading your essay? Be specific. (The answer to this question will relate to your thesis/resolution of your essay.)
- What tone will you use? What Point of View? What style? (Formal? Colloquial? Humorous? Serious? Some Combination? Vocabulary?) Consider the publication (above) and your readers.