Tuesday, September 14

You received your revised baseline essay with comments in your email account - as an attachment. To view the comments either download and open the document - or you can see them in google.docs. I provide a couple of general overview comments + specific responses to particular points in your essay. This is the general form that for feedback to your work. I will be reading the summaries - and hope to get them back to you by Thursday with comments.

Writing Process. After discussing some general comments on the essays the class wrote in response to the baseline prompt we talked about (actually, mostly I talked about) the writing process. The chapter points out that writing does not go from brainstorming through drafting to revising and proofreading in a linear process. It is jumbled up and recursive. The examples in the chapter serve to point out the various places where writers get stuck; the chart points out the practices/processes associated with prewriting, writing, and revising.

I suggested that rhetorcial analysis is an important part of the prewriting process. Rhetorical analysis is the process you use to step back and strategize about what you will write. You consider who you are writing for, the purpose for your writing, what the audience's expecations are in terms of form and content => and you think about what content (ideas) would best meet these demands from audience, purpose & form. A little bit of thinking + some notes about what you need to do before you begin writing your paper can save you a lot of re-writing - and set you up to write stronger, smarter papers.

Response essay. As you suspected - you are going to have to write a paper about the assigned reading. The assignment sheet for this assignment is at the right - and it provided directions for the writing assignment . BUT - you are NOT supposed to write this paper for Thursday. Instead, you are supposed to do some brainstorming (and maybe some rhetorical analysis?) to set yourself up to write this paper.

Homework for Thursday.

Brainstorming for your response essay. As I left class you were doing some freewriting. I am hoping you add to this - and do some serious thinking about what you might write about for this response essay. What kind of a response do you think would make a good essay for this assigment? What do you need to for this assignment? What would be a good idea for the form for the essay? Put your thinking on the page.

Read: Chapter 10: Position paper, HTWA This is a short chapter with a sample for one kind of response paper.