Reflect on your writing habits and drafting your essay this week. What new approaches have you used as you write for school? Which tips from the past few weeks do you feel you will continue to put to use throughout college, and which do you think may not be effective for you? Explain.
***went over in class
Recognize commonly confused and misspelled words.
Use specific words that refer to particular people, places, things, ideas, or qualities rather than general words that refer to entire classes or groups.
Explain expectations of writing for college, including assignment scope, audience, purpose, tone, and word choice (such as avoiding slang and clich).
Write paragraphs that include topic sentences, evidence/development, transitions, and summary statements.
Use brainstorming techniques as a prewriting strategy.
Recognize commonly confused and misspelled words.
Correct sentence fragments.
Analyze an essay, addressing audience, purpose, and organization.
Construct a list as a pre-writing technique.
Write a descriptive paragraph with a topic sentence, support, clear transitions, and a final summary sentence.
Recognize run-ons.
Correct run-ons.
Analyze an essay, addressing audience, purpose, and organization.
Use clustering as a pre-writing technique.
Write a cause/effect paragraph with a topic sentence, organized support, clear transitions, and a final summary sentence.
Recognize subject/verb agreement problems.
Correct subject/verb agreement problems.
Analyze an essay, addressing audience, purpose, and organization.
Draft an illustrative paragraph that uses examples to develop the main idea.
Identify illogical shifts in tense, person, and voice.
Correct illogical shifts.
Use a pre-writing activity and informal outline to plan for a full exemplification essay.
Prepare a thesis statement for the exemplification essay.
Draft an academic introduction paragraph.
Recognize comma errors.
Correct comma errors.
Write a reflective paragraph about the writing process.
Draft full exemplification essay, including introduction, three body paragraphs, and conclusion.
Engage in peer review of full essay.
