Writing Assignment 1b.  Final, expanded draft of the Reading Response Assignment: 10%
Due: 24 February
Length: 2-3 pages
Rationale: learn and practise the techniques of formal, critical literary evaluation.
Method: After incorporating the editorial changes, feedback and corrections of the first draft, re-write your reading response after you have searched for, read and incorporated elements from a scholarly article written about the poem, its imagery, themes, Birneys poetry in general, etc.