These chapters should mostly be review for you, but maybe you have questions or comments about the reading. If so, use this post to make comments.
This is the place to comment on the readings you did in Ch. 9 of Allyn & Bacon.
Confused by something? Found something interesting? Disagree with something in the reading? Let us know.
After you make your own comment on the reading, you are welcome to respond to another classmate’s comment (you can click on a paragraph [...]
Section 002 Students,
Here is the reading assignment for this Thursday:
Norton chapter 25 (Getting Response and Revising)
Harris chapter 10B and 17A (Run-ons), 50E (homonyms)
I will finish my presentation on subordinate, (non-)restrictive clause punctuation, then a group will present to us about run-ons, and another group about homonyms.
You are welcome to comment on this reading here.
Section 601 students,
Here is the reading assignment for Wednesday:
Norton chapter 24 (Assessing Your Own Writing)
Harris chapter 10B and 17A (Run-ons), 17B and 29 (punctuating subordinate and (non-)restrictive clauses), 23A.5 (who and whom).
I will be doing all 3 presentations, including a grammar overview.
You are welcome to comment on this reading here.
Section 002 students,
Here is the reading assignment for Tuesday:
Norton chapter 24 (Assessing Your Own Writing)
Harris chapter 12 (fragments), 13 (dangling and misplaced modifiers), 21D (active and passive), 34 (active versus passive).
A class group will be doing the sentence fragments presentation. I will do the other two.
You are welcome to comment on this reading here.
Chapter 29 talks about different ways to help your reader through your paper.
Share some insights or ask questions about the reading here.
Also, feel free to comment (nicely) on other people’s comments or questions.
Think of this as a discussion area.
Here is a PDF for Chapter 29 of Norton for those of you who do not have a book yet.
Note that this will be the last chapter that I post for you, so you will need to get the book or borrow from the library or a friend or classmate.
For those who do not yet have the Norton FieldGuide, I have the chapter PDFs for you. Note that I will NOT be doing this for more than a couple times, so you’ll need to get the book somehow, and soon, even if it is to just read it from the Library’s copy.
Chapter 6
Chapter 28
Enjoy!