Final

No class tomorrow.  If you need to hand in something or want to pick up your daybook, I will be in or near my office all day tomorrow.

Page Count Tuesday

We look at Section 28 in the Everyday Writer.


Take out your longest paper. As you read it, use a pencil to cross out words or phrases that are unnecessary or wordy. (Or do this on the computer, underlining the wordy stuff.) When you are done, count up how many words you crossed out ________. Divide that number by the word count of the whole paper. What is your percentage of fluff? _______


In your daybook copy down the words in bold and answer these questions.  When possible, explain why you are choosing each paper:


1. Which paper do you like the most?


2. Which paper do you think is the best?


3. Which paper got the highest grade?


4. Which paper is the longest?


5. Which paper got the lowest grade?


6. Which paper do you wish you had spent more time/effort on?


7. Which paper was hardest to write?


How many total pages did you finish for class? _______ I must initial this number.  Everyone gets 2 pages for the bluebook essay and 2 pages for a good MLA style Works Cited page on the Informing essay.

If you have fewer than 22 finished pages, you need to do some reading before taking the final tomorrow.

Homework:

1.  For the final, read  in The Bedford Guide.

Write Your Last Short Essay

If you are taking the final for this class,  return your books on Wednesday, not before.

Today you type up your last short essay, on Mike Rowe's TED talk.  See Friday Dec. 9 for details.


Tomorrow I will collect daybooks, and you must bring all your finished papers for counting pages and doing some daybook activities.