Overview: For this milestone, due in Module Six, you will submit a reflection journal submission that has three parts. First, you will identify literary techniques
from among the selected short stories you have read in this course to explain how they help to reveal character, place, plot, point of view, and dialogue in an
effective short story and determine how you can use these devices in your own writing. Next, you will reflect on the revision suggestions to your short story draft
that you received as feedback from Writer’s Workshop Two and how you will incorporate that feedback into your writing. Last, you will reflect on the revision
suggestions you provided to your peers in that workshop.
Prompt: For the first part of your journal submission, address the following.
From the following list of short stories you have read in 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories, choose two that have influenced your writing:
 “Refresh, Refresh” by Benjamin Percy (pp. 625–638)
 “Communist” by Richard Ford (pp. 394–409)
 “Brownies” by ZZ Packer (pp. 562–581)
 “The Semplica-Girl Diaries” by George Saunders (pp. 683–706)
 “Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott Fitzgerald (pp. 62–81)
In the first part of your journal reflection, review the list of literary devices at the Literary Devices website as well as the OWL List of Literary Terms.
 Identify at least three literary device techniques these authors used in their pieces, and explain how they help reveal character, place, plot, point of
view, or dialogue.
 Identify sections in your own short story draft where you can implement these selected literary device techniques to help develop the final draft of your
short story.
For the second part of your journal submission, answer the following questions based on the revision suggestions you received from your peers in the
workshop.
 What feedback from your peers will you incorporate into your final short story? Why did you find that particular feedback useful? Give two to three
specific examples of the revision suggestions and of the changes you have made or plan to make in your short story.
 What revision suggestions from your peers and instructor did you not find useful for application to your writing? Why not? Give specific examples.
 What was the most the most helpful and most frustrating aspect of the peer review process?
For the third part of your journal submission, answer the following questions based on the feedback you provided your peers in the workshop:
 In providing actionable recommendations concerning the effectiveness of your peers’ submissions, what did you learn about the revision process and
how it can be used more effectively in your own writing? Please use examples from the peer review process, as well, to support your response.
 Explain your own strategy for offering feedback to your peers. For example, try to identify the ways you indicated your respect for the short story draft
and the writer. Explain how you built on that foundation to offer revision suggestions that would further the aims (as you understood them) of the
writer. What do you think was the most successful about that feedback you provided and what might you do differently next time? Use examples from
the peer review process to support your response.
Note: You will revisit this milestone when you reflect on the course as a whole in the reflective essay (due in Module Eight), in which you will summarize your
experience incorporating techniques you learned into your own writing, as well as the process you underwent throughout the course in writing and revising your
short story. Please note that the grading rubric for this submission is not identical to that of your final reflection. The Final Project II Rubric includes an additional
“Exemplary” category that provides guidance as to how you can go above and beyond “Proficient” in your final submission.
Guidelines for Submission: Final Project II Milestone One: Workshop Reflection Two should follow these formatting guidelines: 400 words maximum and
citations in MLA style