WR090 Skilled Writing through Inquiry: A Community of Scholars Examines Success, Grit, and Creative Intelligence WEEK 5 Tue., October 22, 2013

Order of Business Tuesday, Oct 22 nd Please put your name card on the desk & sit with your writing group. Attendance/Reflective Freewrite/Homework Check Workshop: Taking your response from the first draft to the second draft/ adding appositives/ embedding quotations Workshop: Verb review Homework for next class session /collection

Reflective Freewrite 1.You have just written the first draft of your responses to the TED Talk, “The Key to Success? Grit.” Read through your responses and decide what you might want to change. Write about what went smoothly with the actual writing of the response, and what was confusing or a bit bumpy. 2.Share your thoughts with another student.

Appositives! Review of the handout, All about Appositives Review your writing group partner’s responses to see where he or she could use an appositive to : – Add more information to the response – Combine two shorter or choppy sentences.

Paraphrasing Paraphrasing, or rephrasing something another writer or speaker said in your own words while keeping the original meaning, is a skill that becomes sharper with practice. Paraphrasing By paraphrasing, you make someone else’s words and ideas part of you as well as a part of the way you think about the world, so it’s really a great learning tool. Instead of using a long quote, or for that matter, a ton of quotes your work, try paraphrasing. Let’s look at a few examples.examples

How to Paraphrase without Plagiarizing Examine the long quote or the sentences in the original document carefully. Ask yourself what point you want to get across by using this source. Then begin with – The name of the person being quoted – If necessary, the name of the article, speech, or original work – Use a strong verb, such as makes the point, says, argues – Then restate the idea in your own words while being true to the original. You can also embed a snippet of a quote to give your reader a sense of the voice of the original author, which is going to be different from your voice as a writer. – Put aside your work for several hours or even a day, and then re- read your work. Is your voice distinct from the original author’s? If so, you’ve done your job well. If not, re-do.

Embedding Quotations in a Text Using snippets of quotes and embedding them into a piece of writing makes for smooth reading on the part of your reader, and it makes the writer really think through how he or she will use a quote. In no case should a quotation be left standing all on its lonesome. Quotes need to be embedded in text. Punctuating quotations--demo

Verb Homework Review What is a verb? An action word or a word of being (to be) This does not mean, however, that all action words are verbs. 1.Running water filled our basement. ADJECTIVE (modifies the meaning of water) 2.Running (To run) is his favorite form of exercise. NOUN (acts as the subject of the sentence) 3.John was running to the store when he dropped his wallet. (VERB, part of the verb of the sentence) How can you spot a verb when you see one?

Mary’s Two-Step Sure-Fire Method for Sniffing out “the Verb” Handout & Workshop 1.Identify and remove all prepositional phrases 2.Change the tense of the sentence WITHOUT CHANGING THE WORDING. The verb will be the only word to change. 3.Trickiness, of course, is always a problem in more complex sentences.

Homework Due, Thursday, Oct. 24 th – Although we will only have around 20 minutes, bring your second draft to class. We’ll briefly workshop it. – Your final draft will be due on Friday, Oct. 25 th.

Questions? Call me (Mary), or better yet, text me at Ask someone in the AVID Center or the Learning Success Center for help.