Problem/Solution Due ** Timed Writing Practice

Hand in your Problem/Solution papers. Thinkwrite.

Today I'm giving you 40 minutes to write out your essay on the prompt about "Do Talk to Strangers." This gives you practice with how much you can accomplish in 40 minutes.

You will write the essay out in your daybook for daybook points.  Then later you type it to hand in on Tuesday March 5. You may make changes in the typed version.

Homework:

1.  Type up your "The Opposite Is Also True" essay.

2.  Daybook check will be Monday.

3.  TWFTD:  your choice in OED.

Short Project #4

IP returned. Trademark news. Power Hour.  Real world problem/solution writing.

Read in Ev. Wr. page 219 and anwer (thinkwrite) this question: what's wrong with using clichés?

Favorite clichés?  List all the clichés you can think of.

Now, divide them into categories.  (Description, advice, ???) We list them.

Many cliches seem to be similes or analogies. Here we have the internet and email as a source: Why English Teachers Die Young. Note that snopes.com is the place to find out the truth of some internet oddities.

Take the handout and copy down your two favorite "lame analogies" in your daybook.

Here's a bit of cliched advice: don't talk to strangers.

See handout and prompt for the next short essay.

Tomorrow you will have 40 minutes to handwrite a response to this prompt in your daybook.  You will take it with you and type it up, due Tuesday March 5. I'll be picking up daybooks Monday and Tuesday, depending on whether you need it.

Homework:

1.  Your Final Version Problem/Solution is due.

2.  Be thinking of a cliché you will write about for Short Project #4.

3.  Copy your two favorite "lame analogies" into your daybook.

4.  TWFTD:  cliché in OED.

Editing with TurnItIn

Grammar. You do ONE complete exercise at chompchomp.com, either about apostrophes OR there/their/they're OR parallel structure. Number 1 to 20 in your daybook and write down the correct answers. Do more than one for extra credit.

Edit you paper using TurnItIn and asking me questions. The final version is due Friday with yesterday's grey sheets.

Homework:

1.  Finish work on your Problem/Solution paper, to turn in Friday.

2.  TWFTD: propaganda in OED.

Draft #2 Problem/ Solution

You read and comment on drafts.

You upload your draft in Moodle under Problem/Solution Draft 2.

Homework:

1.  Finish the above.

2. TWFTD:  manipulate in the OED.