Critting Protocols

Since a few people have expressed interest, I thought I’d post a little protocol for how to run a critique session in a class. The feedback routine is basically the procedure we used at Clarion West, as suggested by Maureen McHugh, though after a few weeks most of us tended to play a bit more loosely and freely with it. Basically: for a given crit session, students will have texts ahead of time, and are expected to have written a critique of each text to be critique, but also are expected to provide verbal critique. The critique session begins with …

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