COLLABORATION:

1. Collaborative work is strongly encouraged.

2. Groups may be formed with 2 or 3 members. No more. Larger groups become too unwieldy.

3. Please try to keep your collaborative efforts down to a reasonable number of working minutes/hours. Working paper questions are designed to take most people about two hours of working time.

4. Please form groups at the beginning of each assignment. That is, there should be no implicit or explicit commitment to keep working together beyond each individual assignment.

5. In preparing working papers, the 2 or 3 members of your groups must work on all of the questions. Please do not divide up the questions so that individuals are responsible for separate answers. The spirit and effectiveness of full collaboration ask that you all work on all of the assignment, whether through face to face discussion or through email discussions.

THE WRITING PROCESS AND YOUR STYLE:

1. Draft your working paper and put it away for a while, preferably a day or two.

2. In working on the final draft of your paper, please add telling adjectives and adverbs everywhere to complement your precise nouns and pertinent verbs. Use excitatious and interesting language. Convey your viewpoints and interpretations with panache and energy.

3. In working on your re-writes and revisions, use humor and wit to beguile your reader. Amusing your reader is good.

4. Use pointed, specific detail to illustrate your analysis. Instead of saying, "Richard III is afraid," say "The broken syntax and heavy use of caesurae show that Richard III is no longer in command of his speech or of himself" and cite a word or example from the text as illustration of your point.

TRANSMISSION BY EMAIL:

1. Please be sure that your text is sent "in clear." That is, send it as text. Do not send it as an attachment. Some of my machines can't readattachments.

2. When collaborative work is sent by email to Professor Widmann, each author must have an email name/address in the header part of the transmission. One author will be the sender, obviously, and the other names and addresses must be put in the CC: line, so that all authors receive a copy of the writing assignment. Then Professor Widmann can return comments and a grade to each person who participated in the collaboration. If your email address is not in the *header section (and mistakenly appears only in the body of your work,) you will not receive a grade for the paper.

3. Please run your spellchecker before you send your work by email. Five or more spelling and/or typographical errors will result in an F on the assignment.

4. If you have tried to send your work by email on time and there are transmission difficulties beyond your control, the work will be accepted.

5. Please ask for an acknowledgement of receipt of your work by putting a brief note at the end of your emailed text.