English 1010 Summer 2017

Please complete the fourth short essay-- it's an exercise in gathering your ideas, leading up to the reflective letter.  This short essay is asking you to reflect on all aspects of yourself as a writer-- see the assignment in the next post. Also, please revise your portfolio again-- consider emailing each other (dentistry students should email each other). Have hard copies of BOTH the short essay and the new copy of the portfolio paper for tomorrow!

Summer 2017 English 1010 Short Essay #4 In a page of text, reflect on yourself as a writer.  You should develop a reflective claim (a point) and support it. Start by looking over the graded copies of all the major essays. Try remembering your first memory of writing.  How do you feel about writing?  What writing are you most comfortable with? What is most difficult?  What are your strengths in writing? Weaknesses? How has your writing changed as a result of your work in this course?  What do you still have to work on in your writing? Use these observations as support for your claim! What point can you argue about your writing—and how can you use these observations as evidence or support for this claim. This should be in MLA format (think of a good title), be around 250 words (a whole page of text).  

What are your first memories as a writer?  What about your first memories of writing in school?  How do they affect your feelings about writing today? Are there parts of your life you enjoy writing?

English 1010 Summer  2017 Final Portfolio As stated on the syllabus and throughout the course, your “final” for this course is a portfolio of your writings. The portfolio consists of the following : All final drafts for the Narrative, the Rhetorical Analysis, and the Proposal Letter. A significant revision of ONE of your Major Essays.  This is called your “Portfolio Paper.” Include ALL drafts of this paper. A reflective letter that explains your progress in the course and your revision process for the portfolio papers. 1. Final Drafts Because this is the course final, the portfolio will be revisiting the body of your work over the course of the entire semester. This gives you a chance to show how you have progressed, and what issues remain. Include all final drafts of the three major papers– submit the versions with my comments . 2. Significant Revision: Portfolio Papers For this portfolio, select ON

Start with the post 4 down-- Friday 7/8. Work your way up the posts from there. OWL Grammar will be your last one.

Please follow the link to the Purdue OWL's grammar explanation. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/5/  Explore the tabs on the left banner. Focus your time on one of these items-- whichever seems to be an issue for you. In a response here, explain the grammar issue in your own words, what you learned about it and how you will try to avoid issues with it in the future

Paramedic Method: A Lesson in Writing Concisely Summary: This handout provides steps and exercises to eliminate wordiness at the sentence level. Contributors: Allen Brizee Last Edited:  2010-04-17 05:35:15 Use the Paramedic Method (originally developed by Richard Lanham in  Revising Prose ) to edit any kind of professional writing. Editing your professional writing using the Paramedic Method will make your prose easier to read. Sentences that are easy to read are more persuasive and more  user-centered . Professional writers understand the need for clear, concise prose. An industry standard for helping workplace writers achieve user-centered, persuasive, and clear prose is the Paramedic Method. When you use the Paramedic Method, you will reduce your word count by eliminating unnecessary words. The Paramedic Method also helps you activate your sentences by eliminating passive voice and redundancies. The Paramedic Method is an easy to learn, systematic way to make your se

Please summarize the main news items of the day you read in the Skimm. Next, name the news item you focused on-- the one you chose to follow a link to the full-text article. Explain the difference in the tone and voice of the two news sources (the Skimm vs. the full-text article). What is the difference in the way the writing affects you? Which source seems to have stronger ethos? which is easier to read? <More engaging to you? Why do you think each source chose these styles?

Today, I'd like you to reply to a number of posts here in the blog. Firstly, reply to "The Skimm." Next, reply to the post "Concise Sentences." Also, please explore the the Purdue OWL grammar exercises-- follow the instructions in "OWL Grammar" and reply with your findings. After completing these warm-up exercised, please conduct one final workshop on your proposal.  Be sure you submit it to me as a Google doc by the end of class today. For homework, please review each of your graded major essays.  Type up a summary of my comments.  Be prepared to discuss them all with me.  For each essay, also compose a paragraph explaining your own original ideas for revising them-- changing them to significantly improve them.  This should result in 2 paragraphs of reflection on each essay.