Comments | jengiftw: Hollins query

jengiftw

Hollins query

Mar 18, 2008 14:40

I get that one thesis reader has to be creative(/crit), and one has to be critical(/creative ( Read more... )

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kathleenfoucart March 18 2008, 19:44:59 UTC

I don't know about signing up for "wherever" for the tutorial, but it doesn't hurt to put it on your form. Heck, it might even help Amanda when she's trying to sort through all of us ( ... )

kathleenfoucart March 18 2008, 19:48:14 UTC

I don't know about Alexandria

Meaning I don't know if Alexandria is creative only, or creative/critical. :-P Brain not working today!

jengiftw March 18 2008, 21:13:25 UTC

yeah... she seemed tricky to me because I'd guess creative, but there is also the option of taking her Forms course (or craft study or w/e it is now) as a critical class

muchas gracias jengiftw March 18 2008, 21:23:01 UTC

OH.MY.GOD. You have *no* idea how much that just helped... knowing I can register thesis before finishing tutorials. I feel pulled in several different genre directions, so I'd like to do tutorials in more than one (and possibly do the thesis in yet another one ( ... )

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mja700 March 19 2008, 14:43:40 UTC

So why for a MFA does one thesis advisor have to be critical and one creative? I mean for the MA you can (or could maybe this is a new change) have two critical or two creative. It wouldn't make any sense if you are doing a critical thesis to have a creative advisor. Likewise it seems that you'd want to creative people for your creative thesis as oppose critical. Cause frankly I can't imagine someone like Len or Brian being any good at advising a YA or Middle grade unless it was SF/Fantasy. And even then, they don't know the market of publishing fiction/writing fiction/etc.

Per Amanda (at least, what she said to me last summer) kathleenfoucart March 19 2008, 15:32:17 UTC

The new MFA guidelines require one critical adviser (usually the 2nd Reader) because you now have to write a paper about your thesis (instead of taking the comps).

The second reader is basically there to help with your paper- point out 'similar' works, point you in the direction of research materials, etc.

and also jengiftw March 19 2008, 16:04:28 UTC

Right, and it does kind of make sense even without the paper side of it. I like the idea of a critical reader to balance a creative one, who will probably be the dominant influence over the revising of the thesis... so basically, the creative adviser ends up working almost like an editor ( ... )