As our six week semester slams to a halt, I wish you a good summer and suggest some good reading as discussed in class. Feed your mind: Enrich your life. Laugh. Makes for a better life.
Please check out these interactive websites to sharpen your grammar and punctuation skills. The Purdue site also provides tons of information on style, MLA, APA: you name it!
There is NO ONE who doesn't need to expand their vocabulary, so please, play on Freerice. com. Fill a belly(someone else's) and a mind (yours).
List of Interactive Sites
-- Go to Brookdale’s Main Page
--Click on Quicklink: Academic Depts.
--Scroll down to Writing Center
--Click on Writing Center
--Click on On Line Resources
------Check out Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) and
---------The Writers Complex at Empire State College
This site from Dalton State provides a wide variety of interactive exercises and lessons.
http://www.daltonstate.edu/faculty/mnielsen/writing_lab_practice_exercises_list.htm
http://www.freerice.com/ for vocabulary. It'a imperative to have the best words to chose from if you want to win an argument or prove a point.
An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building, and after 50 floors says, 'So far so good!'
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Assignment Due Tuesday June 23
Final revision for Story Behind the Photo. Use the Essay Planner handout to help guide your revision.
Proofread for focus, development, and organization.
Proofread for punctuation.
Proofread for focus, development, and organization.
Proofread for punctuation.
Study the handout on punctuation rules.
Quiz on Tuesday!!
Scroll down to the June 2 entry for directions to a BCC website for additional self-testing. Also check out the Purdue website there.
Remember: check your e mail every day this week-end.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Assignment Due Thursday June 18
Revise essay on Someone Special: Essay 3 (correction) Draft 2
Annotate in the margian showing - in brief notes - what the paragraph is about. This will help you see if you have kept to the rule: 1 paragraph/ 1 topic.
Be sure each topic is developed with description, illustrations; use the five senses!!!!
Be sure your intro and closing paragraphs reflect each other.
Annotate in the margian showing - in brief notes - what the paragraph is about. This will help you see if you have kept to the rule: 1 paragraph/ 1 topic.
Be sure each topic is developed with description, illustrations; use the five senses!!!!
Be sure your intro and closing paragraphs reflect each other.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Assignment Due Tuesday June 16
The Story Behind the Picture
The first draft of this essay should be very well developed. It will get more work than your previous first drafts because you know more now and should be more skillful.
Print a hard copy to proofread three separate times.
Proofread first to examine your intro and thesis.
Then proofread to correct any punctuation/sentence structure errors.
Next proofread looking only for spelling errors to be corrected.
Take a break.
Proofread again to be sure each paragraph supports your focus.
Be sure there is only one topic per paragraph.
Develop your essay with details, and description.
Make sure your closing paragraph is strong and reflects the introductory paragraph.
Look once again at the introduction. Does it “hook” the reader’s interest?
Underline the thesis. After reading the entire essay, be sure it still works.
You have time to do this; use the writing process to create your best work. There should be some fun involved in this. After all, it’s all about you!
This essay carries more weight than the others as you should understand what makes a good essay. Hand in all copies/ drafts that brought you to the Draft 1 ready to be handed in.
Make use of what you’ve learned in Chapter 11.
The first draft of this essay should be very well developed. It will get more work than your previous first drafts because you know more now and should be more skillful.
Print a hard copy to proofread three separate times.
Proofread first to examine your intro and thesis.
Then proofread to correct any punctuation/sentence structure errors.
Next proofread looking only for spelling errors to be corrected.
Take a break.
Proofread again to be sure each paragraph supports your focus.
Be sure there is only one topic per paragraph.
Develop your essay with details, and description.
Make sure your closing paragraph is strong and reflects the introductory paragraph.
Look once again at the introduction. Does it “hook” the reader’s interest?
Underline the thesis. After reading the entire essay, be sure it still works.
You have time to do this; use the writing process to create your best work. There should be some fun involved in this. After all, it’s all about you!
This essay carries more weight than the others as you should understand what makes a good essay. Hand in all copies/ drafts that brought you to the Draft 1 ready to be handed in.
Make use of what you’ve learned in Chapter 11.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Assignment Due Thursday June 11
Chapter 11 on Illustration. Read from page 151 -156; read Natalie Goldberg’s essay Be Specific on page 163.
Page 164: Wrtie out the answers to Questions on Subject #1 and #2. Write out the answers to Questions on Diction, #1 and #2 for class discussion.
If you have not handed in Draft 2 of The Lottery or Day with a Pop Icon, be sure it’s handed in by Thursday, the 11th.
Bring in a picture of yourself. Others may be in the picture. You will be writing about that picture and the story behind it.
Page 164: Wrtie out the answers to Questions on Subject #1 and #2. Write out the answers to Questions on Diction, #1 and #2 for class discussion.
If you have not handed in Draft 2 of The Lottery or Day with a Pop Icon, be sure it’s handed in by Thursday, the 11th.
Bring in a picture of yourself. Others may be in the picture. You will be writing about that picture and the story behind it.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Assignment Due Tuesday June 9
Revise Essay 1 to create Draft 3: Spending a Day with a Pop Culture Icon. The second drafts lacked the addition of description: physical and sensory details that bring the essay alive. Use dialogue when possible. Be the eyes and ears for the reader.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Assignment Due Thursday, June 4
Congrats to All! You did some really good work in class on The Lottery.
On Thursday, hand in the final revision - Draft 2 - of the essay on The Lottery. Be sure to attach Draft 1 behind it.
Need work on grammar, punctuation, prepositions or any other specific area? The Learning Assistants at The Writing Center can work with you. Just make a 1/2 hour appointment. Instructions to make an appointment are in the column to the right, OR you can always drop in.
On Thursday, hand in the final revision - Draft 2 - of the essay on The Lottery. Be sure to attach Draft 1 behind it.
Need work on grammar, punctuation, prepositions or any other specific area? The Learning Assistants at The Writing Center can work with you. Just make a 1/2 hour appointment. Instructions to make an appointment are in the column to the right, OR you can always drop in.
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