Link to today's lesson: Lesson 13.
Today we discussed the editing/proofreading phase of writing--something that most of you are fairly comfortable with. We reviewed Andrea Lunsford's "Twenty Most Common Errors Made by Undergraduates," which should help you to catch some of those more pesky mistakes that everyone makes while writing. We also looked at ways to make your writing more concise, cutting out excess "fluff" material that does nothing to help you get to your point.
Homework:
- Reading:
- St. Martin's Handbook: Chapters 44-49, "Confusing Shifts," "Parallelism," Comma Splices and Fused Sentences," Sentence Fragments," "Modifier Placement," Consistent and Complete Structures"; Chapters 51-52, "Coordination and Subordination," "Sentence Variety" pp.626-658, 665-677
- BA9
- Open Tutoring Sessions: Monday 5/1
Brief Assignment #9:
- For this assignment, use the guidelines from Chapters 4, 5, 50, and 53 in the St. Martin’s Handbook to revise a substantial body paragraph (i.e. at least 4 sentences in length) from your Draft 1.1.
- These revisions can include grammatical edits/changes to sentence structure, but they also should include major revisions you've been making to your analysis.
- Paste the original paragraph from your 1.1 draft into the assignment so that your instructor will be able to compare the original with your revision.
- Finally, write a short summary and evaluation of your revisions.
- Identify and explain which strategies you used in revision and explain these revisions achieve your purpose for the paper.
- Also let readers know here which paragraph, your original or the revision, is the strongest and why you believe that to be so.
The total length of the analysis should be 350-500 words, NOT including the original and revised body paragraphs.
That should be all for now. Have a good week!
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