Skills for Essay I

1.    How do you recognize where readers need detail to experience what you want them to?  product & product
2.    How can you read your stories for themes?  process
3.    What does it mean to expand upon a theme?  product
4.    How do you approach something that you read?  process
5.    How do you make entries in a double-entry journal?  process
6.    How can you articulate the main idea of a complex essay?  process
7.    How do you find a real issue/question, one that you want to write an essay about?  process
8.    How do you do a part-whole analysis?  process
9.    What evidence could you look at that could help you explore your issue/question?  process
10.  How can you read published essays to explore your issue?  process
11.  How do you "meditate" in writing?  product
12.  What is a good thesis (main idea)?  product
13.  What does an introduction do?   product
14.  How do you plan your essay?  process 
15.  How can you tell the story of your essay (identifying and connecting the parts)?  process
16.  What is a metatext?  process
17.  How can you be an effective peer reviewer?  process
18.  How can revising lead to a deeper, more engaging idea? process & product
19.  How can you reorganize based on a new idea?  process & product
20.  How can you revise for the reader? process & product