Analyzing Your Article

After you have taken the page of notes about your article in your daybook, answer the questions below.

Based on your reading of your article and the notes you have taken, answer the following questions in your daybook:

1. What is the main point your author is trying to make?

2. Copy down in quotation marks one sentence from the article which states this point (or comes close):

3. List at least three pieces of support or evidence this writer gives for this point:

a.
b.
c.

4. Which of these are STRONG, in your view? Why?

5. Which of these is WEAK or ineffective? Why?

6. Are any of these hard to follow or not clear?

7. Can you think of any OTHER examples/people/experiences/sources that would support this point? List:

8. Can you think of any other examples/people/experiences that would disprove this point?

Based on those questions begin your draft. Draft 1 due Tuesday.

Homework:

1. Complete the page of notes on your article.

2. Complete the answers to the questions above (write them in your daybook.)

3. Begin writing the draft due Tuesday. Use the yellow assignment sheet to make sure you include all the required elements.

4. TWFTD:  your choice from your article.

Evaluating Writing

1. We look at the highlighted paper answer key and your yellow assignment sheet.

2. What are some choices a writer makes that you can evaluate?

3. Let's discuss which parts of the paper will be subjective and objective.

4. Apply the comma rules to a handout.

If there's time left, start reading/ taking notes over your article.

Homework:

1. Read and take a page of notes in your daybook about your article. Make two columns. On one side note the content; on the other side note your reactions/opinions.

2. TWFTD: your choice from your article.

Working on Summary

You turn in your "Lazy Eyes" paper.

We discuss the Pat Bourne questions.

I hand out the assignment sheet for the next paper.

We look at an example of the kind of writing for the next paper. You read it. Rename a copy of my example paper (found in Moodle) with YOUR last name and save it.


1. Highlight the first and last sentences with red. The first should be a hook. The last is a “clincher.”

2. Italicize the title and author of the article.

3. Highlight all of the summary with yellow.   
 

4. Highlight any evaluation of the writing with green.
 



5. Highlight any response to the article with pale blue. 
 

6. Underline any quotes. These are places that usedthe exact words of the article.

7. Make BOLD any time I used “the writer”  or "the author" or "the article"– any time I used author tags (and would have used a name if there was one on this article).


We discuss how this relates to the yellow assignment sheet. Special attention to what is OBJECTIVE and what is SUBJECTIVE in this assignment.



Homework:

1. Decide which of the readings you want to write about for the next paper (see handout). You MUST choose one for tomorrow.

2. If you did not finish, post your colorized paper to the forum in Moodle.

3. TWFTD: your choice from Pat Bourne OR Kate's example paper.

More About Summaries

First of all, comma rules and conjunctions.

Look at the following sentences and try to decide what the comma rules are:

Coordination--

1. The auditorium was filled with people, but the sea of faces did not intimidate me.
2. I had read the heroine's part, and I had sung a song.

Subordination --

3. They had chosen me for the role even though I was untrained.
4. Although I was untrained, they had chosen me for the role.

Rules?

Now, read the handout and answer the questions in your daybook.

Homework:

1. Finish reading the handout and answer the questions in the back.

2. Have your Solo #2 paper (Summary of "Lazy Eyes") ready to hand in tomorrow.

2. TWFTD: mastectomy in OED.

Summary/ Reaction

If you did the homework, you have read and written about the online article "Lazy Eyes."

I'm handing out an assignment sheet, and you have today's class and tonight to type up a short essay about that article.

This is practice for the in-class essay that will happen at the end of the quarter.

At the end of class, hand in your daybooks.

Homework:

1. Finish typing this essay to hand in tomorrow.

2. TWFTD: none, since I have your daybooks.