Class Work
1. Meet your partner . . .
2. Peer editing . . . read your partner's paper and fill in the graphic organizer. Take a look at your partner's graphic organizer as well. See if the paper and the original organizer match up.
3. Let's work on introductions ...
Do not: http://grammar.about.com/od/developingessays/a/Hookers-Vs-Chasers-How-Not-To-Begin-An-Essay.htm
Positive openings: http://grammar.about.com/od/developingessays/a/whack-At-Your-Reader-At-Once-Eight-Great-Opening-Lines.htm
More grand introductions: http://grammar.about.com/od/developingessays/a/How-To-Begin-An-Essay-13-Engaging-Strategies-With-Examples.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/intros.htm
http://www.butte.edu/departments/cas/tipsheets/style_purpose_strategy/intro_conclusions.html
http://www.csuohio.edu/writing-center/introductions-and-conclusions
Sample introductions are at the bottom of this: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/introductions/
4. Use your graphic organizer as a map to the rest of your paper. You should have 3-6 body paragraphs depending on the evidence you located.
5. Writing conclusions:
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/conclude.html
http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/conclude.html
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/endings.htm
A few samples: http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/faculty/donelan/concl.html
Sample conclusions: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/conclusions/
6. Grammar moment . . . Avoiding run-on sentences and comma splices.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/runons.htm
Conjunctive Adverbs: http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/adverbs/list-of-conjunctive-adverbs.html
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/conjunctiveadverb.htm (Good examples)
Coordinating Conjunctions: http://faculty.mdc.edu/mcueto/ENC%200025/HANDOUTScharts/F1.HTM (Pay attention to the FANBOYS!)
Homework:
Rework your draft and post in CANVAS by Thursday. Pay attention to the introduction and to the conclusion. Clean up any run-on sentences or comma splices. (25 pts.)
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