The week ahead: a preview

As we are at the start of our third week, with a rough draft on the horizon, I wanted to take a moment to go over what we will cover this week, and the plan of action.

For Tuesday: We will discuss the readings (see the link in the previous post), and summarize each; we will break down the major components of this specific kind of paper; we will discuss good ideas for introductions and conclusions; we will discuss two sample papers; you will complete a "building block" exercise independently, and then post a response to the blog.  

 For Thursday: Please bring two copies of your rough draft for workshop.  In addition to workshop, we will complete an editing exercise to hone our skills a bit before diving in.

Both days this week have in-class independent work built into the schedule--I know we have a lot of writing to do in a short time frame, so wanted to set us up for thorough writing, and successful essays.

See you tomorrow!