Monday, October 20, 2008

Monday, October 20

Son now you have written TWO drafts for this course. Good work! you spent the first part of class thinking/writing about which of the two essays you want to revise. You thought about your essay's rhetorical (audience,purpose, form + overall impression) about the strengths of the essay itself, and about the practicalities of actually revising it. And then you picked one of your two drafts. You then characterized the essay you hope to revise in terms of audience, focus, form, tone, length, style => the kinds of features that editors use to decide whether a piece is right for their journal. Keep this writing so you can come back to it when we do the project on finding a venue for one of your polished essays.

You then spent the rest of class workshopping your essays in groups of two or three. I passed around a sign-up sheet - and so we can talk through your plans for revision.

Good class today.

On Wednesday we will do some specific writing/talking about revising. read Thiel, 88-96 on revising.

For Blog 10: write about how you decided which essay you wanted to revise - and why.

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