Tag: conferences

Class, Tues, 10/04

Taking Stock

  • Essay One
  • Grades
  • Plans and Conferences

Developing a Plan

Exchange proto-drafts with the person next to you. Your task as a reader is to help your partner create a plan to develop this proto-draft into a full-fledged essay.

Read the draft with a pen in your hand. As you go along, mark passages that strike you as strong, that the writer will want to keep pretty much as is, with a solid line. Mark passages that the writer might want to rework or cut with a squiggly line. Draw arrows indicating points where you think the writer could say more, develop their line of thought or add an example, and then add a brief note suggesting what that “more” might be. (See my sample annotations.)

Check also on some details. Does the essay have a strong title? Does the writer make the sources of their examples clear—whether these come from experience, observation, or reading? If the writer discusses other texts than Spelman, do these appear in a list of references?

Finally, while your main task here is not line-editing or proofreading, if a typo or mistake jumps out at you, circle it.

Take your time. I want you to spend at least 15-20 minutes working on this piece. Err on the side of over-annotating. Sign your name when you’re done so the writer can thank you in their acknowledgments.

Fastwrite

Add 200 words (or more) to your essay.

To Do

Before you leave today: Make sure you know when and where you are meeting with  me. Make sure you give me a copy of your proto-draft.

  1. Wed, 10/05, Thurs, 10/06, and/or Fri, 10/07: Bring your annotated draft to your conferences with me.
  2. Tues, 10/11, class: Bring a print copy of an all-but-final draft of your first essay with you to class.
  3. Wed, 10/12, 4:00 pm: Email me the final version of your first essay, saved as a PDF.
  4. Thurs, 10/13, class: Have at least two good ideas for “projects of repair” that you’d like to write about in your second essay.

Class, Thurs, 9/29

Odds and Ends

Moving Towards Essay One

  • Fastwrite: Which response(s) do you plan to develop into your first essay? What do you plan to add in order to turn a brief response into a full essay? What parts of your response will you need to change or rework? What parts might you cut? Please email me your comments
  • Proto-Drafts: A document in Word or Pages, 100o words or more, with a title and references, proofread and edited. Due in class on Tues, 10/04.

Thinking About Sentences

  • Sarah C
  • Noa B
  • Jenna C
  • Kennedy G
  • Jake M
  • Cierra E
  • Julz V

Writing Geek

Serif and Sans Serif Fonts: Use serif for paragraphs, sans serif for titles and headers. [pdf]

Google changes its logo from Serif to Sans.
Google changed its logo from Serif to Sans in Fall 2015.

Moment of Zenstore-helvetica-poster

Helvetica (2007), dir. Gary Hustig

To Do

  1. Tues, 10/04, class: Bring 3 print copies of a proto-draft of your first essay to class. We will work closely with them.
  2. Wed, 10/05, Thurs, 10/06, and/or Fri, 10/08: Bring a highlighted and annotated print copy of your first draft to your conferenceme. This will count as p1.
  3. Tues, 10/11, class: Bring a print copy of the near-final version of your first essay to class. We will work on proofreading and editing it.