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Welcome to Effective Writing 1- CM 107 Unit 3: Seminar with Pauline Vinson You should be hearing music. If you don’t, please check your audio. Feel free to chat and get acquainted until the music stops near the top of the hour. Once the seminar starts, please keep all comments relevant to the class topic. Unit 3 Project Write one paragraph on a historical figure who showed courage in “crossing a threshold.” Be creative! Try to choose someone others might not think of right away. In fact, this is an opportunity to share your knowledge of a threshold-crossing hero who is important to you in particular or to the world in general. This assignment asks you to do several things: 1.Provide a definition of courage and what it means in your own words to cross the threshold. 2.Identify an historical figure who has taken a courageous action. 3.Explain how he or she embodies your definition of courage. 4.Use specific examples and details to illustrate your point. 5.Identify what thresholds he or she had to cross. 6.Explain how this person overcame adversity by offering specific examples and details to illustrate your point. 7.Finally, in one sentence, summarize the main idea of your response. Before you submit your assignment Double check the Guidelines. Look at: • The Project Directions • The Grading Rubric Make sure that you have addressed all the required components of the project. Revise your paragraph before you hand it in for a grade Check for: • language use • grammar • spelling • formatting (double-space your paragraph) Submitting your Project Save your paragraph in a location you'll remember. Make sure you give your document a name that includes your name, your class name, and the project name. For example, your saved project might have the following name: PVinson-CM107-34-U3Project.doc When you are ready to submit your project, go to the dropbox and complete the steps below: Click the link that says “Submit an Assignment.” In the “Submit to Basket” menu, select “Unit 3: Dropbox.” In the “Comments” field, make sure to add at least the title of your paper. Click the “Add Attachments” button. Follow the steps listed to attach your Word document. Make sure that you save a copy of your submitted project. Feedback from your instructor To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or go to the Gradebook after your instructor has evaluated it. Make sure to view the comments in the gradebook and to open the Word document that has been returned to you to see the comments that were written directly on your paragraph. To view your instructor’s comments, go to “Tools,” and highlight “track changes” in Word. Let’s review: 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? Where can you find specific help for grammar? How does the writer’s journey connect to the hero’s journey? Invention Presentation Invention Drafting Revising Drafting Editing Revising Editing Presentation What is invention? What other names is it known by? Why is the invention step necessary? What invention (prewriting) strategies do you use? • • • • • • • • • Freewriting Listing Bubbling Clustering Observation Discussion Annotating Outlining Other What is a paragraph? A paragraph consists of related sentences that develop • • • • • and support one main idea. A paragraph begins with a topic sentence that focuses the main idea of the paragraph. The body should explain and develop the idea put forth in the topic sentence. Evidence can support ideas presented in the body of the paragraph. Transitions are used to show the relationships between the various ideas in the paragraph. A Concluding Sentence wraps up the ideas in the paragraph. What is the structure of a body paragraph? What is the relationship of the body paragraph to the entire essay? What does it mean to “develop” a body paragraph? I. The body paragraph structure: Topic sentence A. Supporting Sentence 1. Supporting detail 2. Supporting detail B. Supporting Sentence 1. Supporting detail 2. Supporting detail C. Supporting Sentence 1. Supporting detail 2. Supporting detail D. Closing Sentence Transitions Transitions are words that show the relationships between the different sentences in our paragraph. Examples of transitional words include: However, therefore, because, in addition. Workshop in paragraphing Let us start building a paragraph We can take a topic we’ve already started to consider in this class. The topic is the role of the KUWC in the composition student’s “heroic” journey. We can brainstorm ideas about it and then begin to think of a topic sentence for our paragraph. Can we have two volunteers to take notes for the class during our brainstorming session? Brainstorming As we brainstorm, we can think of what areas of our topic we might need to explain or develop. What ideas do we need to illustrate? What ideas do we need to expand upon? We want to aim to end up with about two clear ideas for our topic: the role of the KUWC in the composition student’s “heroic” journey. Building the Paragraph The ideas we generated from our brainstorming can help us isolate a topic sentence. Once we have a topic sentence, we can start organizing our paragraph. We can think of some supporting sentences. We can add details to back-up our supporting sentences. We also need to consider transitions between sentences. That way, we provide a nice flow to our paragraph and we clarify the relationships between our ideas. Let’s Practice Let us build a paragraph based on two related detail ideas that we have generated together. What are the two related ideas? What is our topic sentence? What type of evidence do we have? Concluding your paragraph What should your final sentence of your paragraph do? How should we conclude our paragraph? Consider now if we have fully developed the topic sentence of the paragraph. Grammar Check Now that we have all the different elements set up for our paragraph, let’s check for grammar. Do we have complete sentences (no fragments or runons)? Have we used correct punctuation (do we have any misused commas)? Did we use formal, standard English (no contractions and slang words)? Were we concise or did we use a lot of filler words? Any questions so far? 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. Thank you for a great seminar! Have a wonderful week!