Draft #1 Summary/ Evaluation/ Response

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.

When you finish, do Exercise 42.1 page 420-421 in Everyday Writer. Number 1-10 in your daybook and only write down the italicized words. There are two sets in some sentences. Check in Section 42 for help with special cases.

Homework:

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

2. Complete the grammar exercise 42.1 in The Everyday Writer p. 420-421.

3. Daybook check is Friday.

4. TWFTD: your choice from your article  in OED

Punctuation Some More

1. First of all, a review of coordination and subordination. Where is that in your daybook?

Now we use this link: http://aliscot.com/bigdog/csfs_exercise.htm

You will write in your daybook, according to my directions.


2. How about apostrophes? They are a problem for many people....

See Section 42 in Everyday Writer.


Now use this link: http://chompchomp.com/hotpotatoes/apostrophes01.htm . Number 1-20 in your daybook, and record what you do -- including any wrong answers before you get to the correct answer.

Any time left, work on the draft due tomorrow.

Homework:

1. Draft #1  of your summary/evaluation/response of an article in Bedford is due.

2. TWFTD: your choice from your article.

Critical Thinking

Thinkwrite: In one sentence explain what critical thinking is. 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?

Homework:

1. Draft #1 of Project #3 with Feedback DUE Wednesday (change of dates).

2. TWFTD: anecdote in the OED.