Dear class,

Thanks for your hard work today.  As a reminder, please finish a draft of the response paragraph to your Summary and Response essay.  Remember, you must choose to write about either Alexie or MacMillan.  The response paragraph should describe how you identify with one aspect of the author’s experience.

Also please print and bring Writing To the Point Excerpt 1 (under Readings) to class.

Finally, here’s a handy review of the 4 step writing process we discussed in class.  Please make note – we’ll be referring to these steps throughout the class!

Step 1: Make a point (thesis statement).

Step 2: Outline point (paragraph topic sentences).

Step 3: Fill in outline (flesh out paragraph(s))

Step 4: Detail outline further (revise paragraphs).

Best,

Professor Kwong