Thinking About an Audience

Greetings.


Today you will type up an essay in response to this prompt:


Write a short essay ( 5+ paragraphs) that explores/explains/describes the importance of audience awareness for the effectiveness of any written assignment. Use specific examples to support your points.


Please be sure to format the essay using MLA style from the yellow handout on Tuesday. 
Homework:

1.  If you did not finish in class, finish over the weekend and print your short essay to hand in Monday.

2.  Read the handout ("A Common Nomenclature...") and as you read underline any unfamilar words. Write the answers to the questions on the last page into your daybook.

3.  Below the answers in your daybook, list any of the words in the article you do not know and write down their definitions.  "Greeble" is defined in Wikipedia. Everyone must list and look up at least these three:  superfluous, nomenclature, and greeble.

More Analysis and Synthesis

We look at Section 22 and Section 23 in the Everyday Writer.  Look up every day and everyday and write a sentence using each of them . Do the same with lie and lay.

We look at the short (five paragraph) essay as a way to analyze/synthesize/evaluate information.  See handout.

Then we look at Bedford pages 400-407.

Now for a prompt:  Write a short essay ( 5+  paragraphs) that explores/explains/describes the importance of audience awareness for any written assignment.  Use specific examples to support your points.

Homework:

1.  Read pages 400-407 in Bedford.

2.  Fill at least one page in your daybook brainstorming about the prompt.  You may write out an entire essay if you wish.  In class tomorrow you will type and print your essay to hand in.

Legos Day 3

As you build projects today, you have to be aware of several things at once.  You must follow the directions, but you must also analyze the directions as you use them. We look at pages 25-27 in Bedford. You will do the "literal" skills as you build.  You will analyze and evaluate as you comment on a set of instructions.


How is the layout on the page working?


What is clear and what is confusing in the writing? 


Are there problems with the directions or is it the audience (you)?


When all are done, you can see how others did with your directions.  Hopefully you have some ideas for ways to improve your own.  Remember, even if people easily built your directions, I want you to look for ways to improve what you have.

Homework:

1. Brainstorm ideas (analyze, synthesize and evaluate) for changes on the green revision sheet, then make typed changes to your directions and print before class. You do NOT have to make all the changes that you list on the green sheet. The revision is worth 26 points for your grade on this project. Note: You might want to refer to your example directions for ideas.

Legos Day 2

Awareness test.  How does selective attention work in the writing process? The policeman.


We check Ev.Wr. exercise 22.9.  


I give you a directions sheet about MLA style, and we go to the lab.

 Legos   we    love. 

Homework:

1.  Finish typing your directions and print so they are ready for a classmate to follow tomorrow.

Legos Day 1

"My play was a success.  The audience was a failure."  by Ashleigh Brilliant

In your daybook: What is the relationship between a set of directions and an audience?
You spend 10 minutes working on Ex. 22.9 in the Everyday Writer Exercise book.

I explain the Lego project, and you begin.

Homework:

1.  Finish writing out your directions and be ready to type them up in the lab tomorrow. (If you have not already logged in once on campus, do so before tomorrow.)