About Writing

The power of writing.

The young army officer:

Newly arrested:

 



Released after eight years:

The first eye-opener:

The big secret:

 

 

The Berlin Wall came down twenty years later, and soon so did the Soviet Union:

 

 

 

Turn in your daybooks.

 

Tomorrow, bring all your papers -- the version that was graded is what will be counted.  Also, bring the grading grid/rubric for each paper.

 



Final Version Due

Blastoff.  Dec. 7, 1972  The hammer .

You get your Problem/Solution paper ready to hand in.

Rhetoric, again, my friends.  The ancients, et al?

Now, the moderns: we watch this. Here's a quick summary of the same thing : take notes.

Now, we discuss these "principles." Do you have an example of someone using one of these on you?

Or did you already use these ideas? How could these be used in writing?

Daybook Assignment: You need to describe/write two applications of these principles of persuasion to your final paper's problem in the real world, or your in writing about it.

Homework:

1.  Do the daybook assignment, above.

2.  Your daybook will be turned in on Monday.  For extra daybook credit,  write a persuasive letter that uses one or more of the above principles.  You choose the audience/purpose/topic, and you must fill at least one page. You are trying to get someone to do something.

3.  TWFTD:  ethics in OED.

Editing

We go over some answers to yesterday's comment sheet. Do you all know how to get the in-text citations right?

Today you do some editing, then work on your own paper's editing.

Final Version due tomorrow.

Homework:

1.  Final Version Problem/Solution with MLA Citing due.  Bring all drafts and purple sheets.

2. TWFTD:  manipulation in OED.