Closely read, critique, and offer revision and editing suggestions for all of the drafts. Offer line-by-line suggestions in parentheses, highlights, different text color, italic, or bold typeface, to point out the specific areas that require revision. Add notes to the selections if necessary instead of just highlighting text. Respond to more than editing suggestions; look at story, look at plot, look at character, and discuss how they relate to the story. Do not add comments to the documents, instead write them directly into the text in parentheses, highlights, italic, or bold typeface.
Additionally, write a summation with your assessment of the strong and weak components for each of the submissions you review.
Responses must not devolve to generic praise (e.g.: “great job, Andrew”) but it would be great to add some places where you really liked the work. Again, the purpose of this workshop is for you and your classmates to offer detailed feedback regarding what works/does not work in the original pieces of writing. Use tools from the reading in Stein’s work as you critique.
If neccessary us evidence from “Stein on Writing: A Master Editor Shares His Craft, Techniques, and Strategies” by Sol Stein to assert claims.
