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Writing is a natural tool for responding to, noticing, and noting the conventions of powerful literature. This course is designed to give instructors of literature writing tools to assist students in finding and expressing their own response to literature in lieu of lecturing on a single ‘read’ of a piece. Participants in the course will experience a number of protocols for responding to literature including literature workshops—which mimic the intellectual moves of an alert reader—response logs, questioning logs, Harkness discussions, and routine rehearsal of writerly moves in a low-risk environment. During the course, participants can expect to create and analyze in both poetry and prose and read and respond to literature. The course ends with an analytical paper mimicking an academic community of peers.