Aristotle's Equation

Purpose?
Audience?

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. Tomorrow the Lego project begins. This will be your first "short project," worth 4% of your grade.

The Writing Process

"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed."

Ray Bradbury (SF writer)

Copy and thinkwrite. Discuss.
Here's a link to an article about 10,000 hours of practice.
And here's another link on the same topic.
Would you like a video on it?

Groups share lists. 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. Copies are available in the Moodle version of this course. Answer questions.

Read pages 6 and 7 from The Bedford Guide.

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

First, please introduce yourself to me, and tell me about your past English classes. Then describe either your worst writing experience or your greatest writing success. Tell us the story. Hand these in.


Homework:
1. Get your books if you have not, including something to use for a daybook and a folder to hold all your returned papers.

2. On the first page in the daybook, write today's date and "Steps 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.