Welcome to De Anza!
Agenda
• Essay 1: Personal Narrative
– Important: You do not need to mention
community health or use the words community
health in your essay. The focus is your story.
Essay 1
• You should have a full draft of your essay that
you can exchange with someone else.
• How many pages do you have written?
Essay 1
• The rubric for the workshop today is available on
the course web page. You should also evaluate
your own essay according to this rubric. Note
that the rubric is incomplete (I will go over other
aspects of the rubric tomorrow).
Essay 1
• Exchange your essay with someone else.
• Either write your name on the essay or, if the
essay is on a laptop, write your name and your
partner’s name on a separate sheet of paper.
Indicate clearly who wrote the essay and who is
evaluating the essay.
– Essay writer: Your partner’s name (if the writer did not
put his or her name at the top of the first page)
– Workshop partner: Your name
Essay 1
• Exchange your essay with someone else.
• You will turn in your workshop checklist along
with your final draft.
• If you have a printed copy then your partner
should write directly on your printed copy and
answer all of the questions on the checklist on
your printed copy.
• If your essay is on a laptop then you will turn in
the separate sheet of paper that your partner
used to answer the questions on the workshop
checklist.
Homework
• If possible, discuss comments with your
partner.
• Edit your essay based on comments
and your own evaluation of your essay
according to the rubric.
• Keep the workshop checklist because
you will turn that in along with your final
draft.