1.Select one writer to serve as your subject–a friend, a family member, even, if you’re so inclined, yourself. Models of these various kinds of papers are included in the sample portfolios provided in Resources.
2. Spend time collecting and reflecting on your data. Consider any of the following questions or items that help you understand your writer(s):
a) What do you know about your writer’s literacy–his or her current feelings about writing?
b) What are your writer’s current goals, interests, and strengths?
c) What aspects of your subject’s writing are most interesting?
d) What are your writer’s problems with writing?
e) Characterize the kind of exchanges you have had. What have been your successes? What have been your problems? What has surprised you?
f) What have you learned, if anything, about your future role as teacher or responder to writing?
3. Reflect on your data. Choose one or two significant features to emphasize in your paper. Use your writer’s words and samples as well as your own thoughts and reflections about the writer.
4. Write a case study of your writer. Aim for approximately three typed, double spaced pages.
5. First person is fine, as well as any other creative ways you choose to approach this project. Just make sure that at the end, your reader has as clear a profile of one writer as the length allows.
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