Draft 2 Problem/Solution

Do you know LifeHacker?

Commas again:  Ex. 38.7 page 99.

You read drafts.  Your job is to THINK.  Is this paper doing what it needs to do?

Homework:

1.  Choose an article of interest to you from LifeHacker.com.  Read it and write a two paragraph summary in your daybook.  The first paragraph should explain how the article presented the problem; the second paragraph should explain the solutions covered. Be sure to cite the source! ***

2. The Final Version of this paper is due on Tuesday of next week.

3.  TWFTD:  insomnia in OED.

***cite the source = mention the title, author and location of whatever it is you are writing about.  ALWAYS DO THIS CLEARLY OR YOU ARE PLAGIARIZING. But you know this.

Revising Problem/Solution

Put your Problem/Solution draft onscreen. You must highlight the sections of your draft in the following ways. If any of these sections are lacking, work on them.


A thesis:  one sentence that contains both the problem and the solution.  This may be in your introduction, or it may be in the middle where you transition from problem to solution.  When it is written, highlight it in RED.

Statements to convince us of the importance of your problem. These would include the effects of your problem. Highlight these with green. If any of these use Logos, Ethos or Pathos, label them.         

Statements that analayze causes/reasons the problem exists. Highlight with grey.

Go back to the beginning and work on your hook.  Highlight it with yellow.    

Any statement that motivates us to help with the solution. Hightlight this with blue.

Your solutions. Pink.

At the end of class, save this file and continue to revise for tomorrow. Upload the highlighted version to Part 2 in Moodle.  Print a plain version for class tomorrow.

Homework:

1.  Draft #2 is due tomorrow. You need to print a version without all the highlights; upload the highlighted version to Part 2 of the Moodle link.

2.  TWFTD:  Choose a word related to your problem.  Look it up in the OED.

Draft #1 Problem/Solution

We discuss commas rules, Section 38 in Everyday Writer.

Then you prepare your drafts, exchange, read, and comment on two drafts.

NOTE:  Your job is to help the writers decide whether their problem/solution IS WORKABLE!  Help each other;  if you think someone should choose a different topic, SAY SO.

Homework:

1. Please upload your draft in Moodle before class tomorrow.

2. You do Ex. 38.1 page 93.

2.  TWFTD: pathogens in OED.

Working on Your Draft #1 Problem/Solution

Grammar:  do the "Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning" handout. 

We look at the website this came from. What is the problem?  Support?  Solution?  What action is required of us?

Let's look at your problems. Please do NOT write about a topic you HATE.  How about student debt? See this?  How about living with China in the future? See this?

Bike questions?  The beginning and the three appeals.

Time to work on your draft due tomorrow.

Homework:

1. Draft #1 for Problem/Solution Due tomorrow.

2. TWFTD:  proposal in OED

Short Essay #4: Problems with Intellectual Property

Problem/Solution Forum:  Today while you're on a computer, you must post to a new forum in our class in Moodle.  It is a forum where you will post the problem that you're writing your long paper about, with at least one solution you will write about.

Today you have time to type your fourth short essay: Problems with Intellectual Property.

Turn it in at the end of class, or at the beginning of class tomorrow.

Also turn in your daybooks today.

Homework:

1.  Short essay #4 due at the beginning of class.  Tomorrow you must begin work on your long Problem/Solution essay.

2.  TWFTD:  none