 How
to Improve Your Writing
SESSION 8
This
free Online Course
Developed by: Melissa Fry, M.Ed. English. To obtain college level instructional support
for this course contact
Melissa Fry melissa.fry@kctcs.edu.
Content:
Journal
Throughout this course
you will be asked to generate journal entries.The purpose of these entries is to get your brain warmed up
and your creative juices flowing. You
may or may not end up using your journal for writing later in the course;
however, the main focus on this exercise is to get you writing.
Journal entries should be ½ to 1 page in length.
You should not worry about proofreading at this point.
Simply let your words flow. A
journal topic will be posted daily; however, if you do not like the topic simply
free-write on your own topic of choice.
Journal # 7
Write about a lie you wish you had not
told or a lie that you were glad you did and why.
Organizing the body of your essay, Chapters 12-16
Now that you are clear on how to write an effective paragraph, you must
now decide what technique to use to organize the body of your essay. Chapters 12-16 provide you a number of possibilities for this
organization. As a writer it is your call to whether one of these organizational
patterns you choose; however, you must mention this is your thesis statement.
For instance if you decide to compare and contrast rock singer Janis
Joplin to folk singer Jewel, you must indicate this in your thesis.
To facilitate learning the
organization patterns that are available to you as a writer, we will now divide
into cooperative groups and be assigned one of these four chapters (12-16) to
cover. You will spend 30 minutes
preparing your material and will present your assigned chapter to class as a
whole for fifteen minutes. Your
goal as a group is to make sure the others in the class understand exactly how
to use whatever specific type of organization that you are assigned to.
Please complete Assignment # 7 to
review correct apostrophe and quotation mark usage.
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