Day 7

English 101 Summer 2010 Day 7

1. Tomorrow: Meet in lab. Be sure you can log on. Bring something to save your work with (or email it to yourself).
   
2. Homework for Tomorrow: Read A1 and A2 in Hacker, "Constructing reasonable arguments" (57-76).
   
3. What did you think of the articles? What surprised you? What could you use in your essay?
   
4. The Writing Process—C1
   
   1. Planning
      
      1. Assess the situation.
         
         1. Topic: Victor Joseph's Hero's Journey
            
         2. Audience: Instructor, classmates, others in college
            
         3. Purpose: To explain the transformation of Victor using the Hero's Journey archetype
            
         4. Deadlines: July 7^th/July 12^th
            
         5. Length: 3-5 pages, double spaced, MLA format.
            
         6. Sources of information: Film, web, handouts, short story.
            
      2. Exploring ideas
         
         1. Talking and Listening
            
         2. Annotating Texts
            
         3. Listing
            
         4. Clustering
            
         5. Freewriting
            
         6. Asking Journalist's Questions
            
         7. Read/Research
            
      3. Formulating a tentative thesis (10)
         
         1. Is it too obvious?
            
         2. Can you support your thesis with the evidence available?
            
         3. Does the thesis require an essay's worth of development or will you run out of points too quickly?
            
         4. Can you explain why readers will want to read an essay with this thesis?
            
            1. Powerpoint.
               
      4. Sketching a plan.
         
         1. Powerpoint.
            
   2. Drafting
      
      1. Powerpoint
         
      1. Introduction.
         
      2. Body
         
         1. Headings?
            
         2. Visuals?
            
      3. Conclusion
         
   3. Revising
      
   4. Presenting