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How's the water?

connect

              How's the dirt? How's the worm?   

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our theme song?

 


LOOKING AHEAD:

 

12-3 P2 critiques due DUE on basis of three categories

 

12-12 or earlier   P2B final FOLDER due [LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION]  HOW WILL IT BE GRADED?

go to writing center, ask for  Dylan Davidson

 


 

 

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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.  Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  Mathematical Circles

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth." 
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Dass Guided Imagery

"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL"  St. Augustine

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Winter Break birthdays: Yukon Wolf (12/8); Sea Lion (12/12); White Tiger (12/30)

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Born free, as free as the wind blows

Born free to follow your heart

Live free and beauty surrounds you
The world still astounds you
Each time you look at a star Stay free, where no walls divide you
You're free as the roaring tide
So there's no need to hide Born free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
'cause you're born free (Stay free, where no walls divide you)
You're free as the roaring tide
So there's no need to hide Born free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
'cause you're born free

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Sea Lion Rebirth 

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  White Tiger Rebirth 

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Yukon Wolf Rebirth

 

FACEBOOK

 

  

Sir Paul McCartney sings Happy Birthday to You! 

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Garfield's happy birthday dance 

http://youtu.be/dSCsNbFpzsE

 

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 12-1 Winter Break birthdays: Wolf (12/8); Sea Lion (12/12); White Tiger (12/30); Next Semester discussion;; Hemingway's Farewell to Arms Blog 2 (points can be applied to either semester); the ART OF WRITING 2, including DocPrP;evaluation

WHY IS CONCISENESS SO DIFFICULT?

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Why Documentation?

WHY PUNCTUATION?

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PROOFREDING NEEDED?

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TODAY'S GOALS [2I1] “to know thyself.” To know one’s strengths and weaknesses . Self-awareness is essential not only for leadership and ethics, but for good writing for it enables self-management of time and emotional as well as intellectual resources.

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REQUIRED:

1294                        Hemingway on Rewriting

1295-1296 Farewell to Arms summary

1297-1320           Hemingway's 47 endings to Farewell to Arms

WRITING AS DISCOVERY LEARNING, AS ART

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O= 2. Organization and Logical Order of the Prose  +V = 4. Integration of Verbal and  Visual   Rhetoric

1262                           Writing Well is Thinking Well
1265                           Yeats, "Hammer Your Thoughts"; IRELAND
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RETHINK REWRITE  ALSO  = ^ [coherence]

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1266                           Forster, "Only Connect" [ CONNECT Your Head and Your Heart ALSO ^ [coherence] BRITAIN
1267-1268              Creating a Strong Thesis
1269                       Structure of a Professional Research Paper
1270                        "COMPOSITION," the meaning of    ALSO ^ [coherence]
1271                       Introductions and Conclusions        ALSO ^ [coherence]
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^ = 1. UNITY, COHERENCE, AND FLOW

1272-1273           Flow and Transitions     ALSO O
1274                       COHERENCE, sign of an 'A' paper
1275                        Transitional     Expressions
 1276                       Focusing on Transitions  

W= 8. WORD CHOICE + S= 3. SPECIFICITY: 

1321-1322           Verbs that Take Prepositions
1323                       Rough Guide to Preposition
1324                        Revisions    Checklist
1325-1326           Saying What You Mean
1327-1328                        Diction and Conciseness

USE THE Oxford English Dictionary:
https://login.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/login?qurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.oed.com%2f
  
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C= 9. CONCISENESS
1327-1328          Diction and Conciseness   ALSO  W= 8.
1329-1330           Eliminating Wordiness  ALSO  W= 8.
1331                       Readability and Clarity  ALSO  W= 8.
1332                        Tips for Improving Readability  ALSO  W= 8.  
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REVIEW

WRITING INSTRUCTIONS

 
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1256-1257                 High School to College Writing Transition
1258-1259                 Researching
1260-1261                 Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism
   
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P= 7.  PUNCTUATION:
1277-1287           Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: commas, semicolons
1288-1289           Quick Guide to Commas  
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DOC= 6. DOCUMENTATION

1290-1293           Chicago Manual of Style: Endnotes Only; No Bibliography; Consecutive endnote numbers with no repeats;  specific page nos. required for all print source citations ;
do not use automatic citations systems unless they match this one EXACTLY
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"Our papers came back bloodied with red marks –most lavishly the withering "ww" for "wrong word."  Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel (page 201) AMERICA

 
P =PROOFREADING
1333-1335          Proofreading
1336                     Why spell checkers are not enough
  
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