Difficulty Papers for UHC/General Writing
You can expect to write regularly in this course. In preparation for class discussion and writing assignments, you will write short (1/2 to 1 page) "difficulty papers." These are papers in which you identify and begin to hypothesize the reasons for any possible difficulty you might be experiencing as you read the assigned texts. Each week, you will write a difficulty paper. Each week, I will select one or two of them as unusual or representative examples of the readings you produce. I will photocopy, distribute, and use them to ground our discussions. My goal, in doing so, is to move all of us from judging a difficulty as a reader's inability to understand a text to discerning in it a reader's incipience awareness of the particular "demands" imposed by the language/structure/style/content of a text.