Portrait of a Writer Assignment Notes

Portrait of a Writer Description Write a three- to five-page essay in which you describe your view of yourself as a writer, using examples and explanations to strengthen your description. As appropriate, you will refer to the authors of texts in WAW to help explain your experiences, processes, or feelings.

Conclude the essay by considering how or whether the things you have learned so far in Comp 1 might change your conception of yourself as a writer or your writing behaviors.

Your audience is incoming Freshmen. Because of such, the essay’s form, content, tone, language, level of formality, and so on will be influenced. However, you can still be very creative.

Try writing a play outlining your writing process; transform a metaphor about writing into a visual description - for example, a collage, of who you are as a writer or what you think “good writing” is.

Lastly, considering that you will be posting this assignment to your www.wix.com account, you may want to create a hypertext essay where readers can look at pictures, watch video, listen to songs, even listen to your own voice, as you describe yourself and your conception of writers, the writing process, and “good writing.”