| Question | Response |
|---|---|
| Did you know much about this topic before you wrote this paper? | |
| What did you know? | |
| Why did you choose this title for the paper? | |
| Did you have other titles that you decided not to use? | |
| What were they? | |
| Did your ideas about the topic change while you were working on the paper? | |
| If so, how did they change? | |
| Which passage in the paper--it could be a single sentence or as much as a couple of paragraphs--do you think represents your best writing style? | |
| Which passage in the paper--again, it could be a single sentence or as much as a couple of paragraphs--did you have to work on in a concentrated fashion to get the style appropriate and correct? | |
| What are the three most important changes from previous drafts that you made in the revised, polished version? | |
| Why did you make those changes? | |
| What one aspect of "housecleaning"--spelling, usage, mechanics, and punctuation--did you really concentrate on perfecting in the revised, polished version? | |
| Give a specific example of this aspect. | |
| Choose one person you talked to before or during the writing of the paper. What did you talk about? | |
| What effect did your conversations have on your paper? | |
| In the process of writing this paper, did you do anything different from what you have done when writing papers in the past? | |
| What was it? | |
| When did you receive the initial assignment that eventually led to this paper? | |
| Between the time you received the assignment and the time you handed in the revised, polished version, when did you do the most work on this paper? | |
| Where did you work on this paper most of the time? | |
| Describe the environment of this space. Estimate the total amount of time you spent working on this paper, including planning, drafting, discussing, revising, editing, and typing. | |
| If you could spend another half hour on this paper, what would you do? |
Last updated 97/08/29
© J.A.N. Lee, 1994,1997.