Apostrophes and Writing Your Draft

Apostrophes! pages 420-421 in Everyday Writer.

What are the meanings of these sentences? Copy and explain:

My brother's dog's food is rotting.

 

My brothers' dog's food is rotting.

 

My brothers' dogs' food is rotting.

 

My brother's dogs' food is rotting.

 

 

Possession, yes, but what about these words?  his, hers, theirs, ours, yours, its, whose.

Special confusion points go to its, your, their and whose because of it's, you're, they're and who's.

Do the handout. Then work on your draft for tomorrow.

Homework:

1. Draft 1 due Problem/ Solution paper

2. TWFTD: possessive in OED.

 

 



Mind Mapping

Here's mine: https://www.text2mindmap.com/ur16yg?controller=frontpage&method=index&map=ur16yg

You make yours. You need to state your problem. Examples. Causes. Effects. Solution. Possible problems with the solution. See pages 193-195 in Bedford.

When you are done, print what you have produced to include in the next daybook check. Also email the link to yourself if you want to continue to work on it.

Tomorrow there will be some time for writing Draft #1.

Homework:

1. Begin working on Draft #1.

2. TWFTD: feasible in OED.

Problems?

You need the Bedford Guide today.

Thinkwrite: Look at the pictures on pages 134-135 in Bedford. Describe what you see and write about possible problems these pictures illustrate.

Answer questions about this next assignment. We discuss...

We look at a student's paper, "It's Not Just a Bike" pages 188-189 Bedford. You have the following questions to answer in your daybook:

• 1. What problem does Lacey Taylor want solved in her essay “It’s Not Just a Bike”?
• 2. This is her hook: “Imagine one day waking up to find that your car had been stolen. To many students, a bicycle is just like a car.” I think it would be more effective to do the imagining FOR the reader, and tell a little story. Using YOUR imagination, write a better hook that tells a story to help us imagine this situation. {This should be several sentences.}
• 3. ListTaylor’s five proposed solutions.
• 4. Which two solutions do you think would be MOST effective? Explain.
• 5. Which two solutions do you think would be LEAST effective? Explain.
• 6. When Taylor proposed the solutions you identified in question 5 above, did she acknowledge in any way that there might be difficulties? Quote her statements that point out potential difficulties with either of those solutions.

Homework:

1. You must choose a topic. Draft #1 is due Tuesday. Begin drafting over the weekend. On Monday class time will be used to create a "mind map" of your problem. If you wish to do so ahead of time, go to https://www.text2mindmap.com/ .

2. TWFTD: rehabilitation in OED