Requirements and Specifications for the Re-Write
 
     
DUE DATE
  

Tuesday, April 11

     
    1) If you choose to pursue the re-write option, I will expect significant revisions on the paper. If I receive a re-write in which the student has only changed grammatical problems or changed just a few words or sentences, I will return the paper unmarked. In short, it is much less work to write a strong paper the first time around. For the most part, papers that require re-writing lacked theses, misinterpreted scenes, misused terms, and/or had serious structural problems. To correct these problems, you will have to re-think completely your ideas and the way you present them. In many cases, I might have requested more in-depth analyses or suggested that you work up a single thesis more fully rather than simply listing unrelated and unexplored points. Avoid paraphrase; when necessary, I expect the paraphrase to be accompanied by an in-depth analysis of the scenes being examined. Re-writes are difficult exercises. To be done properly, they require that you put in a great deal more energy than was expended on the original.
     
 

2) You will be required to have two half-hour sessions with a tutor in the English Department’s Writing Lab. (Note that these need to be scheduled ahead of time. Drop-ins do not count for this exercise since they only last 15-20 minutes.) You should bring a new outline and the original paper to the first session in the Writing Lab so you can discuss with your tutor how to go about improving upon the first effort. You should bring a draft to the second session so you can discuss specific problems in your writing. I also require that, in between these two sessions, you drop by my office hours so we can discuss your progress and how you plan to correct the problems in the original paper. If you cannot make my office hours, then e-mail me to set up an appointment (felluga@purdue.edu). When you go to each of these three meetings, you should have with you the original paper with my comments.

     
    3) Hand in the original paper with the re-write, including my printed comments. You may write on these original papers, but I ask that you do so in a color other than the one I used to make my comments.
     
   

4) Hand in the completed re-write on April 11, either in class or in my office hours.

     
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