Objective

Produce a revised formal draft of your third essay for and audience of your peers. To produce your formal draft, you will extensively revise and develop your zero draft using ideas from class and suggestions provided in my feedback on your Zero Draft.

Objective

1. Review all writing you’ve completed for this course.
2. Reflect on how it has informed your writing and close reading practices.

Objective

Produce a rough first or “zero” draft of your third essay. This will help you find raw material (i.e. potential evidence and rough ideas) that can be refined and further developed when you revise. You’ll use response exercises to develop three analysis paragraphs and to draft a working thesis.

Talk Out Your Ideas

The writing in your Zero Draft should be very rough and messy. You should explore potential paths of inquiry without necessarily knowing whether or not they will lead to fruitful conclusions. The point of this part is to continue to think your ideas through, to explore your thoughts on paper. Do not “go back” to fix spelling or grammar errors, or to revise or change ideas; keep going forward! Allow your messy, nascent thoughts (and questions) to unfold and develop on the page. In other words, talk out your ideas.

If you have a non-English first language, incorporate words and phrases from your first language as much as you want.

• Develop an annotated bibliography for five secondary source texts.
• In each entry, identify / label the elements from the Elements of an Annotated Bibliography.

1. Use the Queens College Library Database to identify peer-reviewed journal articles that discuss the novella.
2. Identify elements to include in your annotated bibliography.

1. Identify additional evidence from Heart of Darkness and freewrite analysis.
2. Brainstorm key terms for research.
3. Draft a research question.

1. Identify additional evidence from Heart of Darkness and freewrite analysis.
2. Identify theoretical terms from Stuart Hall’s “Discourse and Power.”

1. Identify evidence from Heart of Darkness and freewrite analysis.
2. Freewrite on the common themes in the secondary source texts.