Comma Practice

Where do the commas go?

1. To win the contest Jason needed skill and luck.

2. While her friends watched Lily practiced her gymnastics routine.

3. I opened the junk drawer and the cabinet door jammed.

4. Some studies have shown that chocolate of all things helps to prevent tooth decay.

5. In "America's War on the Overweight" the authors are showing how we pick on the obese.

6. Reading playing the clarinet and making Youtube videos are my weekend activities.



I return the Agger papers. What is one weakness of the Agger paper that you will improve on the current paper?


Time to work on everything due tomorrow.


Homework:

1. Draft #2 is due of your Project with Feedback #3. You will upload Draft #2 into Turnitin in Moodle, as well.

2. Daybooks are due tomorrow.

3.TWFTD: your choice from the article you are writing about.

Draft #1 Due Summary/Evaluation/Response with Feedback

Fill out the Writer's Page I hand out. Put your draft with the comment sheets.

You get into a group with others who read the same article.

Read and comment on two drafts each. If you finish early, do the grammar exercises in The Everyday Writer from yesterday's blog.

Homework:

1. Make this draft better. Draft #2 is due Friday.

2. Complete the grammar exercises in The Everyday Writer, due Friday.

3. Daybook check is Friday.

4. TWFTD: fact  in OED

Critical Thinking

Topic: Critical Thinking   Thinkwrite: In one sentence explain what critical thinking is, and then describe a situation or activity you've gone through that required you to do critical thinking.

We discuss.

You read pages 40-43 in Bedford.

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?

Grammar Exercises in your daybook:

Before Friday, if you have CS or RO marked in your last two papers, do Ex. 37.1 page 390 in Everyday Writer. Each sentence must be fixed TWO ways, but you may use [...] to limit what you copy down in the daybook.

If you do NOT have a problem with CS or RO, do Ex. 39.1 page 401 and Ex. 39.3 page 405 in Everyday Writer. Read the explanations before the exercises, as needed.

Homework:

1. Draft #1 of Project #3 with Feedback DUE tomorrow.

2. TWFTD: anecdote in the OED.