Story Self-Evaluation & Grade Suggestion

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Your name: Date: Story title:

Workshop Reflection (after reading letters & annotations)

You’ve now had your workshop and read your peers’ and professor’s letters/annotations. This section is a place to gather your thoughts before you head back into the draft.

1. How did you feel leaving workshop? In one or two sentences, describe how you felt as you left workshop (for example: energized, confused, deflated, seen, mixed, etc.).

2. Any reflections on the dynamic of the workshop? If you have any thoughts about how the conversation went—the flow, what felt especially helpful or unhelpful, or anything about the room you’d like me to know—you can share them here. (Optional.)

3. What ideas from workshop most resonated with you? Looking across all the comments and letters, what are the ideas or questions that most stuck with you—especially the ones that made you want to go back into the draft, go deeper, or try something that feels true but hard?

4. What did readers seem to love most, and what might you do with that? Note a few things your readers were most excited about in the story (moments, choices, sentences, relationships, etc.). Are there ways you might build on or deepen any of those strengths in revision?

5. Your peers as readers If there are any classmates whose feedback or letters felt especially thoughtful or helpful, you can name them here and say why you found their response useful. If there’s anything about the feedback you received from peers that worried you or felt off, you can also note that here so I can keep it in mind. (Optional.)

Aesthetic Priorities for This Project

For each category, choose how important it is to you for this story.

Category	Importance for this story
Language
Character
Narrative / Structure
Detail / Scene
Emotion
Innovation / Experimentalism

Self-Evaluation

Now rate this draft relative to expectations for this stage of the process (1 = weak for this stage, 5 = excellent for this stage).

Category	Rating (1–5)
Language
Character
Narrative / Structure
Detail / Scene
Emotion
Innovation / Experimentalism

Process, Effort, and Circumstances Relative to what was realistically possible in your life for this project, how much effort did you put into this story? Did this story workshop during the first few workshop slots of the semester? Circumstances (time, health, mental health, caregiving, work, etc.) that significantly affected your ability to do your best work on this story (share only what you’re comfortable sharing):

If you think your circumstances should raise your grade for this draft, how many points (0–5) would you add to the calculated percentage?

Suggested Grade (Calculated)

Aesthetic score will appear here after you click “Recalculate now.”

Process score will appear here after you click “Recalculate now.”

Base suggested percentage will appear here after you click “Recalculate now.”

Circumstances adjustment and final percentage will appear here after you click “Recalculate now.”

Suggested letter grade will appear here after you click “Recalculate now.”

Calculation: 80% based on how the story performs in the areas you said matter most to you, 20% based on effort (relative to your real-life constraints), plus any points you’ve chosen to add for circumstances. A small additional adjustment may be added if your story workshopped very early in the semester. Scores of 1–5 in each area are curved so that 3 ≈ 80%, 4 ≈ 90%, 5 ≈ 100%.

After seeing this suggested grade, would you keep it as-is, raise it, or lower it? Explain why, referring to your priorities, self-ratings, effort, and circumstances. If you marked any category as “Not important,” briefly defend that choice.

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