Class Seven
In-class Journaling:
Let’s begin by getting out the new and old drafts of the Cultural Analysis paper. Your job over the next 15 minutes is to identify and comment on 5 major changes that you have made between these two drafts. Go into good specific detail.
Group Work:
Discuss the changes you made to the draft. Come up with a collective list of your changes. Once you have done this, I want you to generate a group statement that clearly explains the writing process you have followed so far with this paper. What have the important steps been? How are these steps reflected in the new draft? (15 minutes)
Group presentations: (5 -10 minutes)
Class Discussion of Group Presentations: (5 minutes)
Mini-Lecture: (5-7 mins)
The writing process: Writing is not a “mystery show”
Workshop:
For many of you, the primary challenges for this draft can be broken into two categories:
A) Comprehension:
1) Basic Sentence Structure.
2) Paragraph Structure.
B) Content:
1) Document focuses on one short-term event, and then relates that event to two specific categories.
Assessment:
1) Eyeball for paragraph structure – if you find a paragraph that appears to be unorganized, mark it.
Next…
2) Sentence structure – read a sentence until it becomes confusing. At that point, mark it.
Stop after you have found seven sentences.
Papers go back to writers, who will then attempt to correct their mistakes on the back of the pages where they appear.
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Now we are going to look for content issues.
You had to tell me about an important event that occurred over a specific short time period, and then you had to connect that event to one or two cultural categories.
Proofreaders:
Read until you come to the end of the writer’s account of the specific short-term event. When you get there, draw a line under the last sentence across the page.
Next, I want you to look for the specific comments the writer has made about how his or her culture relates to his or her chosen cultural categories.
Does the author use judgmental language? If so, where is it? How detailed is his or her explanation of how these categories relate to the event? Identify at least two paragraphs where the writer could go into more detail.
Give the papers back.
Writers, go into more detail by re-writing the paragraphs on the back of your paper.
Homework:
Read and annotate: Futures 130-180.
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