UPDATED 4/17/13
"Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”
E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910),
ch. 22
"‘One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep, ‘Hammer your thoughts into unity’. For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did by that sentence'”
William
Butler Yeats (cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats, 1976, p.51 )
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Revising is discovery learning, especially
when you
HAMMER YOUR THOUGHTS INTO UNITY
This category includes also the rubrics: Organization and Logical Order of the Prose; and Integration of Verbal and Visual Rhetoric; but your unity grade is also affected by Punctuation; Proofreading: Typos, Spelling, and Grammar errors; and even Word choice.
Why? Because the medium IS the message, because form and content are inseparable, grades for unity are based not only on what is written but also how it is written, subtracting for all errors and infelicities in writing style that stop the flow and make the reader pause and try to figure out what you are trying to say. Hence, in addition to meeting all the evaluation criteria, all projects must have logical transitions between paragraphs and sentences as well as structural unity and progression of thought throughout. Failures of connection between paragraphs and sentences will be indicated by an inverted V (indicating something needs to be inserted) and points subtracted accordingly.
Where can I find out more? See your course anthology, especially: “COMPOSITION”; "COHERENCE, sign of an ‘A’ paper"; "TRANSITIONAL EXPRESSIONS"; "Writing Well is Thinking Well"; "Undergrad Writing Center"
