Abstract
The assignment described in this essay asks students to take on a fictional voice, as well as to critically analyse literary, scholarly, and student texts. Drawing from my experiences with the project, I contend that: 1) encouraging students to write imaginatively as a Chaucerian character can help them develop a more sophisticated sense of the stratagems, risks, and evasions operating within any given speaker’s “I”; 2) innovative assignments with a creative component are also beneficial because they often motivate students to work more rigorously with literary texts and scholarly sources; and 3) papers with a creative dimension readily lend themselves to equitable grading on the part of English professors, as long as we make our standards explicit to students and to ourselves.KeywordsLiterary TextModern Language AssociationMedieval LiteratureEnglish MajorCanterbury TaleThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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