Creative Writing Process and Publish Semester Exam

For your Creative Writing final exam, you are going to demonstrate your skills at every step of the writing workshop process - a process we have practiced and honed for over 50 hours this semester.  Your task is to use the next hour and fifteen minutes to select one (or more, if you have the time) poems you have written this semester, have it peer read thoroughly, complete a deep revision of it, edit it, and prepare its final copy, culminating in completing a Wordsmith submission form and submitting the pieces (or pieces) for publication.

You are being evaluated in the following areas:

20 points: A true, thorough peer reading of another's work
20 points: A true, thorough deep revision of your own work
20 points: An effective and accurate editing job
20 points: A professional preparation of a final copy, including submission form
20 points: Your use of time and cooperative spirit for the entire exam period

Helpful hints:

• First and foremost, use your time well.  You are being observed and evaluated.
• Select your writing carefully, using something you are not completely satisfied with.  If you pick a favorite, you are much less likely to want to change it, leading to a low score on revision.
• Be very specific when you peer read; this will make it easier to complete a good review.
• Don't forget to sign your peer read.
• Revise aggressively and intelligently - you are being graded more on your willingness and ability to see your own work in a completely different light, rather than on the ultimate quality of the poem itself.
• When editing poetry, make spelling your focus; then, check punctuation.  That should do it.
• Make sure your final copy is professionally written and your form is similarly completed.
• Submit in the following order: Wordsmith form, Final Copy, RRD, Peer reading (could be right on RRD which is fine.)