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3-7 Revision : BRING TO CLASS [1] YOUR SUMMARY OF YOUR P1B CRITIQUES SO FAR, ALL TEN CATEGORIES, BEGINNING WITH THOSE YOU NEED THE MOST HELP WITH; AND  [2] BRING YOUR LATEST DRAFT OF YOUR P1 WITH A PASSAGE MARKED THAT YOU WANT HELP WITH, along with [3] Faigley book (or -10), and, of course, your course anthology, spirit animal symbol, etc.

TODAY'S GOALS:

IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOAL: [1C] how to read and follow directions

WRITING goals:

[2E1] get a taste of what it is like to be a professional writer aiming at perfection and adopting the necessary time management, rewriting, and proofreading to become a great writer.

[2E2] get a taste of writing as a work of art. We practice informal writing as way to overcome writer’s block and as a foundation for becoming good writers. Our formal writing is writing as art, and thus the best writing you can possibly do. Think of your project as, say, a statue: you want it to have as few flaws as possible, to be as “perfect” as possible.

[2E3]. experience writing as discovery learning, especially as one connects parts of the essay, usually while rewriting.

Our mottos: [2E3a]. Only connect! . . .Live in fragments no longer.”

[2E3b]. ‘Hammer your thoughts into unity’.

[2E4] practice writing energized by positive rather than negative motivations, by love of your work of art rather than fear of deadlines, by creativity rather than going through the motions, by curiosity rather than compulsion.

[2E7] get a taste of the new world-wide writing, the instant publication of web writing.

[2E8] practice the new multimedia writing which appeals to multiple intelligences, the right as well as the left side of the brain.

TODAY'S TOPICS: The Art of Rewriting

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:, Revision instruction and practice, Speeches Mt. Lion: Battle Hall.

TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:

 Detailed criteria for your print version here (to be turned into the instructor).

Faigley: All of Parts 4 and 6: "Style and Language" and "Punctuation and Mechanics" + chs. "Revise, Edit, and Proofread"; "CMS Documentation"; "Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices"; and "Shifts"

Course anthology: 250-322

WRITING BASICS

High School to College Writing: Making the Transition

WRITING AS DISCOVERY LEARNING, AS ART Writing Well is Thinking Well9 Rhetorical Fallacies Yeats, “Hammer Your Thoughts” Forster, “Only Connect” Creating a Strong Thesis Structure of a Professional Research Paper “COMPOSITION,” the meaning of Introductions and Conclusions Flow and Transitions; COHERENCE, sign of an ‘A’ paper 300 Transitional Expressions 301 Focusing on Transitions

WORD CHOICE The Oxford English Dictionary And Oxford Reference Online Verbs that Take Prepositions Rough Guide to Prepositions -------------------------

PUNCTUATION: Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: commas, semicolons Quick Guide to Commas

DOCUMENTATION: CMS: Formatting Your Paper

REVIEW:

41-42 The Importance of Reading Directions;

103 Undergraduate Writing Center

REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: Everything you learned about writing

LOOKING AHEAD: Project One hard copy

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REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: YOUR P1 ESSAY

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LOOKING AHEAD: YOUR P1 ESSAY; Penguin Washington Statue; Owl: Wilson Statue.

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