Class Twenty
You are here today with a revised four page document that meets the basic requirements we talked about last time.
Last time, we talked about some of the difficulties we were having with the draft. One of the things we talked about was how we might get more specific with regards to the topic or issue or problem we were focusing on.
Journal:
How is the topic or issue or problem you are writing about in this draft more specific that the topic or issue or problem you were focusing on in the last draft? As you answer this question, make sure to comment on how your specific examples and details have changed.
Group Discussions/ Mini-Presentations
We also spent a lot of time last class talking about paragraph structure. We will need a new kind of paragraph structure because we are no longer simply telling chronological stories. I suggested the following format:
Topic Sentence
Supporting Sentences
Transitional Sentence
Topic Sentence: The purpose of the topic sentence is to introduce the main idea that will be addressed in the paragraph.
Supporting Sentences: The purpose of the supporting sentences is to go into increasingly more detail about the subject of the topic sentence
Transitional Sentence: The purpose of the transitional sentence is to get the reader ready for the topic of the following paragraph.
Journal:
I want you to focus on two paragraphs, one from your last draft and one from the current draft. I want you to talk about how you changed the organization of the paragraph to better fit the new structure we are now talking about.
Group Discussion of the change.
Peer-Review Workshop
Part 1) Now that we have spent some time revisiting the basic concepts from last class, we can see how our work is developing through peer review.
I want you to swap papers, and proof read for paragraph structure. Do these paragraphs follow the basic three part organization we were talking about last time? If not, tell the writer exactly where and when the problems are showing up.
Part 2) Sentence Structure: Run-on, Comma Splice, Introductory Elements.
Questioning: Read paper and come up with four questions that force the writer to further describe the importance of the similarities or differences he or she is seeing between his or her own culture and the culture they are investigating.
Pass In Papers.
Read and Annotate Chapter 3 for Tuesday.
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