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The Writing Mentor Flyer Part of your ENG 101
Semester Portfolio

• One must be drenched in words, literally soaked
  in them, to have the right ones form themselves
  into the proper patterns at the right
  moment.Hart Crane, American Poet (1899-1932)

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Throughout the semester you have explored the
writing of your mentor. Now it is your chance to
show off what you learned form your writer and
sell him/her to future students so they too can
gain critical composition knowledge from your
author!
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What is the purpose of your flyer?

• To highlight the topics your writer covers.
• Provide a sample of your authors writing.
• Give a quick snapshot of your authors career and
  highlights so future students can know if the
  writer will interest him/her.

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Your Requirements
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• Include the following on the front
• Two quotes/reviews about your authors writing
• A brief bio
• Five common subjects/themes your writer covers
• Images of books or journals or newspapers or
  blogs your writer contributes to.
• Complete My writer is . . .
• Complete My writer is like OR unlike . . .
• Complete As I read about him, I thought . . .

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Include your process analysis writing mentor
activity One short paragraph explaining how to
write like your mentor in three short steps! Be
clear and show you truly understand what makes
your writer tick!
Choose a passage or excerpt of your writers
work! If you writer can have edgy topics be
sure what you choose is one hundred percent
appropriate!
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A Few Hints . . .

• Aim to be aesthetically pleasing! Remember your
  goal is to get others to pick your writer!
• Cite anything that you take directly from another
  location! You can just put the web address!
• Be creative!
• Remember to focus only on the nonfiction!

• Try using templates in Microsoft Word to create
  your flyer! You can also use a power point slide!
• Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com often include
  critiques of writers within the same location you
  can purchase books written by that author!