Hey everyone! For Thursday, I would like you to write (and print out) an introduction for your revision. This should be about 200 words. Your intro should also:
- Have a clear sense of audience–WHO are you writing for (recent high school graduates? College professors?) and what is the best way to reach this population? Think about diction (word choice) that best reaches this group
- Know what publication you are writing for– remember, you are writing this revision as though you’re writing for a magazine/ newspaper/ website, etc… This should be a publication your audience reads!
- Your intro should be interesting! That is, it needs to HOOK your readers. Think about the last time you read an article online. You read the first few lines and if you were bored, you stopped reading. How can you get your readers’ attention?
- You should also, toward the end of your intro, introduce your thesis statement (probably.) It’s true that not all published articles do this, but it’s also true that it’s much harder to write with a “hidden” thesis than an explicit one.
There will also be a quiz on Thursday of some of the grammar stuff we’ve reviewed in class. There will also be one short essay question on “The Maker’s Eye” which we read last week. The grammar issues we covered are:
- Sentence fragments and run-ons (review HERE)
- Capitalization (look up on the Purdue OWL)
- Apostrophes (look up on the Purdue OWL)
- “Their/ They’re/ There” and “Your/ You’re”
Here is a copy of “The Maker’s Eye.” You may bring it to class.
Microsoft Word - Murray, Donald - The Maker's Eye.doc
Meetings (all in my office, Namm 525)
Weds, March 27:
- 2:00 Raymond
- 2:20 Ismael
Thursday, March 28
- 10:20 Ashley
- 10:40 Britney
- 11:00 Hadeel
- 12:50 Deo
- 2:40 Saalik
