Monday, December 10, 2012

Writing about Poetry: Notes

- Know about your readers backgrounds
- Unless otherwise instructed, assume your audience is the other members of your class; choose this because the members of your class have certain backgrounds and interests that match up with yours.
- Four kinds of papers you may write:
1. Papers that focus on a single poem
2. Papers of comparison and contrast
3. Papers on a number of poems by a single author
4. Papers on a number of poems having some feature other than authorship in common
- Be sure to follow and pay attention to your instructors guidelines on the paper; length, deadlines, fonts and size, general topic vs. broad topic, preparation of manuscripts, etc.

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