Category Archives: Process Writing Prompts

750: Mick Jagger Wants Me

Almost all communication is built on the chassis of story. Your upcoming personal essay will be a kind of story, of course. But even the more formal, academic-type essays you’ll write in your college career can be considered stories, stories … Continue reading

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750: Process-Writing Prompts for “Fatso”

For this class, we’ll break into small groups for RPG (role-playing game) conversation.  Here are the roles that you can choose from: Discussion director:  develops a list of discussion questions and facilitates the group discussion, keeping everyone on topic and … Continue reading

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750: Process-Writing Prompts for “Super Goat Man”

First, a quick note: in the past, some students have considered this to be one of the more difficult stories we read in here. If you find this to be the case for you as well, I’ll expect you to … Continue reading

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750: Process Writing Prompts for “Sea Oak”

A quick tip:  in class, we’ll start off by sharing our power spectrums in small groups, so you’ll want to focus on that in your process writing.  Then feel free to pick & choose among the other prompts–or to follow … Continue reading

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Mudpit

Almost all communication is built on the chassis of story. Your upcoming personal essay will be a kind of story, of course. But even the more formal, academic-type essays you’ll write in your college career can be considered stories, stories … Continue reading

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