What do you think Dethier means when he says that “Revision takes you from self to society.” Do you agree with this statement? Have you ever experienced revision as a process that operates in this way?

What could you relate to in this essay? What were you resistant to? If you tried the mouse-in-the-jar exercise at the end, how did it go?

How closely did the description provided in this text match your experience of college writing, so far?

After doing a second, close reading of the text you will analyze for Paper 2, using the techniques described in “On Thinking and Reading Critically,” how has your understanding of this text evolved? Were things you saw when reading this … Continue reading →

How would you describe the structure of “Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power”? Why do you think Lorde chose to structure this essay the way she did?