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The Writing Process
- i. Talking and listening
- ii. Annotating texts
- iii. Listing
- iv. Clustering
- v. Freewriting
- vi. Asking journalists questions
Monday, September 26, 2011
Day 6
Fall 2011 English 101 Day 6
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Information Literacy Workshops
Names Quiz
a. Planning
c. Sketch a plan (C1-d)
d. Draft (C2)
e. Revisinig (C3)
f. Final Draft
g. Publish/Present (C5)
2. Draft a working thesis
a. Katrina
b. Credit Crisis
c. China/Australia/Texas/Southwest Dust storms
d. Global Warming/Climate change
Last Friday we talked about Katrina and thesis statements. (Egan interview handout to 1255 class and review with 1030 class).
Thesis: Main idea. 1-3 sentences. Arguable. Usually at end of introduction. Narrow and specific. Roadmap? (often three points work well in a 3-6 page essay, but you could slice it lots of ways).
We might change some of these terms. You could substitute/add climate change or race into the conversation about Katrina and WHT, for example.
For the purpose of walking us through the first essay, I’m going to use Katrina as a working thesis. Last week we found good evidence of the “ample warnings”.
Let’s try to find evidence of the “massive exodus” in WHT.
6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Now, more generally, “Betrayal” Notes In groups of four
Ch 6-10—Foolishness
Warnings,
Hype,
Overconfidence,
Greed
Race?
Ch 6-10—Characters
The human spirit
Self reliance
Community building
Connection to the land
Resilience & Persistence (tough, tough mothers)
Hopes & Dreams
What is the big picture of 1935?
What are the big themes?
We’ve seen:
Failure to learn from history
Failure to heed warnings
Environmental devastation brought on by
Overconfidence/Hubris/Hype
Greed
Technology/Machines
Exodus(ters)
Indifference to the problem by Feds/Rest of us
And on the plus side:
The human spirit
Self reliance
Community building
Connection to the land
Resilience & Persistence (tough, tough mothers)
Hopes & Dreams
Reading: Tonight Ch 12
Quiz Thursday over Sections 1 and 2
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5 comments:
Going over the writing process in class has helped lots! I've always kinda known how to do it.. but this has helped reassure me and has helped me learn how to write a stronger paper. The "A Writer's Reference" book has helped too... great tool.
I think reviewing the writing process is always good. It might be really boring and people already know it, but most people when writing skip over important steps and their paper reflects on that and doesn't turn out as well as it could have.
Thanks for going over the writing process. It's been seven years since I took a english class. It really helped.
Going through the writing process was very helpful gave a good refresher and gave us a good base for out paper.
I'm liking how thorough you've been on explaining the writing process, I know a lot of us have had other English classes but this is the best that I can ever remember being given this much insight into the all of the steps involved in writing a paper, it's really clearing a lot up.
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