Draft #1

Revise = re see.  You bring "fresh eyes" to each other's papers.

We talk about levels of revision : global, organizational, and sentence.

You read each other's drafts and fill out comment sheets.

Then you do a worksheet to practice getting around in the Everyday Writer.

Homework:

1.  Continue to observe, take notes and revise your draft.  Draft #2 will be due on Wednesday, typed.

2.  Complete the worksheet on using The Everyday Writer.

Observe and Write

You have a day to work on the first draft that is due tomorrow.  It can really simply be an extended free-write, but you should stick to this topic once you get started writing about it.

Tomorrow bring your first draft to class.

Add a vocabulary word to your daybook.

More on Observation

Now we discuss the vocabulary section of your daybook. From now on you need to add one vocabulary word for each day that class meets, not including Fridays.  So that's four words a week except for this week. For each entry:

1. List the word.
2. Quote a chunk of the context so we can tell how it was used.
3. Write your guess for what it means.
4. Copy the definition from a dictionary that matches that context.

For example:

1. impetuous
2. "the live impetuous blood pulsating"
3. not controlled?
4. forcibly rushing (OED)



Thinking about observation.  We look at the handout about meeting this assignment and discuss the techniques for this kind of writing.
Audience/Purpose/Genre?


You look over Dinesen's "The Iguana." Form groups and annotate her use of the techniques for writing about observation.

We look at it together.

Homework:

1.  You decide on what you will observe for this essay.  You will need to complete TWO full pages of observation notes in your daybook about this item over the next week.  Your notes may include sketches and diagrams.

2.  One vocabulary word.

3.  Tomorrow is a work day.  You do not need to come to class unless you have questions for me.  Bring you first draft on Friday.

Thinking About Observation/Description

Freewrite:  Describe something that you can look at tonight.

We read about observation and Mr. Scudder.

I pass out the assignment sheet for the first paper.


Homework:

1.  In your daybook fill one page with a description of the same thing you wrote about during class, but be sure to be sitting and looking at the object WHILE you are describing it on paper.

2.  Be thinking about what you can observe for your Observation/Description paper. 

The Rhetorical Situation

We check the grammar handout.

What is rhetoric? Think Greece. Athens, not Sparta.

Read section 5b on page 46.  We discuss.

Groups discuss Naylor in terms of audience, topic, purpose, context, genre.

Library project:  We go to the library where you find some different genres of writing and describe their characteristics.

In your daybook, list this information for three different items:

Title--

Genre--

Characteristics--

For instance:  Sports Illustrated
                      popular magazine
                      full color, long and short articles, many ads with men in mind, many pictures with each article, small(?) print for articles, easy to tell what is an article and what is an ad.

Homework:
If you don't finish this project in the library you may complete it at home using any written material you have -- a letter, an email, a piece of advertising from snail mail, a greeting card.