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Week 4.3

Week 4.3. Concision Review and Commas. Lesson Objectives. Review concision so students can incorporate these skills into draft 1.2 Discuss balance between sources and synthesis in draft 1.2 Review comma usages: When and Where?. Concision Practice.

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Week 4.3

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  1. Week 4.3 Concision Review and Commas

  2. Lesson Objectives • Review concision so students can incorporate these skills into draft 1.2 • Discuss balance between sources and synthesis in draft 1.2 • Review comma usages: When and Where?

  3. Concision Practice 1.a Although Harte wrote very little about the composition of the short story, he did establish a pattern by which scholars can at the very least attempt to construct the time period for composing “The Luck of Roaring Camp.” 1.b Although Harte wrote littleabout his composing of “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” he established a pattern by which scholars can attempt to reconstruct it.

  4. Concision Practice • One should note that these studies construct a surprisingly telling prediction for how advertising impacts the health of children. • The published hearings not only condemned the embattled CEO in the media, but led to federal indictments on fraud. • There are many calls to action, but specific proposals, however worthy as individual items, seem too partial, palliative, negative[.]

  5. More Practice • Communication, one should remember, is to be understood in terms not of the action of uttering but of understanding. • I really like think that you should reconsider the upcoming proposal.

  6. Draft 1.2: Balance Read the “Word Size” paragraph on page 614. • What does the author emphasize in this paragraph? • What is the balance between synthesis and summary? • How does this balance highlight the literature more than the topic?

  7. Kelsey. “Commas: A cautionary tale.” Get Thee to an Editor.N.p., 1 Jan. 2013. Web. 27 June 2014.

  8. “A punctuation-mark [now,] used to separate the smallest members of a sentence.” • “The function of the comma is to make clear the grammatical structure, and hence the sense, of the passage; one of the means by which this is effected in actual speech is a short pause; hence the comma is often inaccurately said to be merely the mark of such a pause” (“comma,” emphasis added). “The comma is a mark of separation. It may divide items in a series, distinguish subordinate from main clauses, and insert stylistic pauses, among other things. The comma is a useful tool, but it is all too often misused” (Strumpf and Douglas 412). Comma Explanation and Definitions “comma, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2014. Web. 27 June 2014. Strumpf, Michael, and Auriel Douglas. The Grammar Bible. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2004. Print.

  9. Common Comma Errors After introductory elements • Although Bird values wilderness as a place of freedom from civilization, she never doubts that civilization will overtake the wild. Are commas needed in the following sentences? Where? • Whenever someone rings the doorbell her dog goes beserk. • With the fifth century came the fall of the Roman Empire. • However the case remains contested.

  10. Common Comma Errors Commas around Nonrestrictive elements • Nonrestrictive means the sentence does not need the element to retain its meaning. • The boy who broke the window ran (restrictive). • The boy, who happens to be the fastest kid at school, ran. Is there a nonrestrictive element in the following sentence? Where should the commas be? • Viruses unlike bacteria can reproduce only by infecting live cells.

  11. Common Comma Errors To set off parenthetical and transitional expressions • Roald Dahl’s stories, it turns out, were often inspired by his own childhood. • The Overland Monthly appeared at least in format to resemble the Atlantic.

  12. Common Comma Errors Quotations • Gary Scharnhorst writes, “The very survival of the Overland seemed unlikely when the August 1868 number […] was put into production in mid-July” (38). • Nevertheless, the short story was printed in the August issue “without emendation, omission, alteration, or apology” (Harte xiv). • Nevertheless, the short story was printed in the August issue, Harte proudly declares, “without emendation, omission, or apology” (xiv).

  13. Homework Friday, June 27 • Two comments on the class blog • Submit peer critiques 1.1a and 1.1b in Raider Writer Monday, June 30 • First-Year Writing: Ch. 7-8 (147-87) • St. Martin’s: Ch. 40-43 • Draft of BA 4 • Thesis statement, Original Passage, Revised Passage, Revision Report

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