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Welcome to Effective Writing 1- CM 107 Unit 3: Seminar with John Gravener Monday, April 11th, 2011.

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  1. Welcome to Effective Writing 1- CM 107Unit 3: Seminar with John GravenerMonday, April 11th, 2011 Feel free to chat and get acquainted until the music stops near the top of the hour. This session is held 6:00-7:00 PM (EST). Once the seminar starts, please keep all comments relevant to the class topic.

  2. What amulets and helpers exist for Composition students? • What is Standard English and why is it important? • What are the differences between informal and formal language? • What is concise writing? How can we make our writing concise? Let’s review:

  3. How does the writer’s journey connect to the hero’s journey?

  4. What other names is it known by? • Why is the invention step necessary? What is invention?

  5. Freewriting? • Listing? • Bubbling? • Clustering? • Observation? • Discussion? • Annotating? • Outlining? • Etc.? What invention (prewriting) strategies do you use?

  6. Let’s hear some ideas from you on what a paragraph is. • The paragraph is a group of unified sentences that generally express one main idea. • The topic sentence summarizes the main idea of the paragraph What is a paragraph?

  7. What is the relationship of the body paragraph to the entire essay? • What does it mean to “develop” a body paragraph? • The body paragraph structure: • Topic sentence • Supporting Sentence • Supporting detail • Supporting detail • Supporting Sentence • Supporting detail • Supporting detail • Supporting Sentence • Supporting detail • Supporting detail • Closing Sentence What is the structure of a body paragraph?

  8. What should the body of the paragraph do? • The body should explain and develop the idea put forth in the topic sentence. • Let us start building a paragraph • Suggest some possible topic sentences. Workshop in paragraphing

  9. For the topic sentence we have picked, let us add some sentences to create a body • We also need to consider transitions between sentences and between paragraphs. • How should we conclude our paragraph? Let us now get some practice

  10. What should your final sentence of your paragraph do? • How should you conclude your paragraph • Consider now if you have fully developed the topic sentence of your paragraph. Concluding your paragraph

  11. Questions about the material we have discussed today • A preview of the Unit 3 Assignment and discussion question this week • The criteria for the Unit 3 assignment. Any questions so far?

  12. Thank you for a great seminar! Have a wonderful week! john

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