1. What topic did you pick? ______________________________________
Have you shared your topic(s) with the instructor?
Is your focus narrow enough that you can have something to say and explore it in 3 to 5 pages?
If not, do you need to narrow your topic further?
What evidence (quotes) have your found?
a. From Heart of Darkness?
b. From Frederick Karl (or Ross Murfin)
3. Have you added the following formatting?
a. Header
b. Info on page one, upper lefthand corner
c. Works Cited page
4. Have you clarified your main point? What would you like to say about your topic? About Heart of Darkness? About Frederick Karl and psychoanalytic criticism? About Freud and the unconscious?
5. What is your plan between now and the due date for finishing the essay? Which days will you work on drafting? Finding quotes? Revising? Proofreading? Is your weekend busy? Can you complete most of the writing before the weekend? When?
6. Reflect on how balancing two texts, one fiction, one theoretical, is a skill that you will need in college? What can you learn from your current process?
When you are finished writing, share your observations with another student. Try to clarify exactly what it is you are trying to say in your essay.
