As you explore your ideas, you may want to consider the following questions: • What aspects of the text are risky? • What kinds of risks might people take in their

writing? What do they look like? • What makes some writing riskier than others? • What parts of the writing process/experience are affected by risk? (Topic/subject, word choice/diction, final layout/design) • How do writers manage risks? What factors determine how risky a writer can be? (audience, location of text, social expectations) • How do writers make these creative, risky choices "work"? • How does a risk-taking writer work with traditional norms and expectations of writing? • Are there certain situations where taking risks in writing is not allowed? Why?/n9:29 Search Back Assignment Details ENG 107: First-Year Composition (2023 Fall) 16 Once you choose your text, you may want to ask these even more focused questions: • What kind of risks does the writer take? • How does the writer manage the risk? • How are the dominant and alternative perspectives represented in relation to each other? • Who decides that the choices the writer makes are risky? • What is the overall effect of the risk-taking? Does it work, or is it a mistake? Why? • Why is the risk worth taking? What is the writer trying to contribute by taking this risk?/nProcess Genres Here are a few process genres that might help you develop ideas for the profile essay: • Personal reflection on risks in writing (and consequences) OR times you "played it safe" • Brainstorming list of different risks writers take (and possible reasons why/why not) • List of things you have read (in any language) that seem to bend the rules without breaking them (substance/topic; rules of writing). How does the author break that "rule" effectively? • Reading an example of a nonfiction text where the author takes a risk and writing a response/mini-analysis of the text (using quotes and paraphrases correctly).