Aristotle's Equation

We start here.

Audience + Purpose + Genre = Style (how it looks) and Content (what it says)

Look at p. 15 in Bedford and consider the equation for each. Which is more effective?

Now we look at your directions.
 
In your daybook, create a chart for each of the terms in the "equation" and your direction examples that you brought to class, like this:

MP3 Player:
Audience-
Purpose-
Genre-
Style-
Content-

 After filling in your chart, think about the effectiveness of each of your examples.  What specific choices in style and content work or do not work?

In groups you will compare the examples you brought to class.  Create a list as a group of the characteristics of effective vs. ineffective directions.  Record this in your daybook and then share with the class.

Homework:

1.  Fill at least one page (one side) in your daybook describing a situation where you were frustrated by ineffective written directions.  As you describe what happened, try to analyze what the specific problems were with those directions based on today's discussions.

2. TWFTD: rhetoric

3.  I'm traveling to Chicago for the college this weekend, and you will have a substitute for Monday and Tuesday.  You will begin the Lego Project (and I'll be missing out).

The Writing Process

"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed." Ray Bradbury (SF writer)


Copy and thinkwrite. Discuss.


Groups share recipes. Discuss.


All look at pages 7-11. Then copy red headings into your daybook in a way that maintains the hierarchy.


Establish a vocabulary section in your daybook. Flag. Enter TWFTD: drudgery. Hive definition? Google? For this word, today, you may use the quote from the book. BUT for all other words, you must choose and copy down your favorite quote AND GIVE THE SOURCE --an author and a site or publication.

Homework:


1. Read pages 12-15 in Bedford. In your daybook, write out two paragraphs based on the "Learning by Doing" at the bottom of page 13.


2. Find TWO EXAMPLES of written directions to bring to class. These could be the directions for any product OR a school assignment OR a "how to" from online OR in a manual. They must be hard copies.

Welcome

You look at the course syllabus. Answer questions.

What is revision?

Page 6 from The Bedford Guide.

Now you please take some time to fill a page (as much as you can) on this prompt:

Describe your worst writing experience and your greatest writing success.


Homework:
1. Get your books if you have not, including something to use for a daybook.

2. On the first page in the daybook, write today's date and "My Recipe for Writing a Paper." Underneath that title, please use your past experience to put together a list of steps for writing an essay or long paper. It is a list, so the word "recipe" may or may not apply.