1. WR090 Skilled Writing through Inquiry: A Community of Scholars Examines Sustainable Food | Sustainable Agriculture Monday March 4, 2013 Unity Review Final Draft Review Phrases & Clauses, continued Summarization, an Introduction

2. Quiz: Library Lesson An Overview of the Essay-Writing Process Unity Exercise (Sgt. Pepper) review Final draft review Phrase/Clause In-Class Exercise Introduction to Summarizing Assignment Review for Wednesday, March 6 th Order of Business

3. Focusing Reflective Freewrite When you were writing your first draft, describe what you did to prepare to write, what materials (Brainstorm, Linking Sentences Worksheet, Blueprint, etc.) you had available, and where you did your writing. What materials did you find most useful to the writing process for you, and why so? Websites; books in library; discussion with the tutor; review of reading /viewing responses/notes/; linking sentences; movie What went smoothly for you while you were writing? The whole process; thinking about ideas; brainstorming (beginning stages); What was most challenging about this assignment? Introduction and conclusion; the linking sentences ; putting the ideas together. WRITE A SCENARIO (A SITUATION THAT YOU MAKE UP THAT HELPS YOU SEE / VISUALIZE WHAT YOU ARE TALKING. IMAGINE A SITUATION IN WHICH…

4. An Overview of the Essay- Writing Process Perhaps nothing provides a better picture of what the essay- writing process looks like, than, well, a picture.a picture

5. Final Draft Peer Review Carefully review the Essay Evaluation Standards Select one or (at most) two partners and trade papers. Carefully review your partner’s paper. Discuss the process with your partner.

6. Unity Review Assignment Due Monday, March 1st You are assigned to examine a paragraph and evaluate it for unity. You will note that it definitely has unity problems when you read it through. 1.Find the topic sentence of the paragraph. It should be the main idea, what the paragraph is all about. Label this sentence with TS (topic sentence) 2.Then systematically measure each sentence against the topic sentence. You want to be able to label each sentence in the paragraph as Supporting the TS, Off-topic, or Contradicting the TS Label each sentence as S, O, or C. We will begin the assignment in class so you can get an idea of what’s involved in completing it. I recommend that you work on this assignment with others; it will definitely be more fun this way. For extra-credit, re-write the paragraph so that it is unified. Be assured that there is no one perfect way to re-write this paragraph— you can even change the story around if you want to do so! Just have fun with it.

7. Phrases & Clauses What is a phrase? What is a clause? In-class practice Chapter 5 preview

8. Summarization: An Introduction We’ll review the handout and the assignment

9. Library Extra-Help Session Saturday, March 9 th MHCC Library, main floor 11 to 2 p.m. Bring your student ID or a laptop

10. Homework Monday, March 4th Read and annotate the Unity handout; complete the Sgt. Pepper Unity Exercise Turn in your final draft of the Sustainable Food | Sustainable Agriculture essay Study for a quiz over the library lesson. Wednesday, March 6th Read, annotate, and outline the Introduction to Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual. Read and annotate the “Writing Summaries” handout. Phrases and clauses—what is going on in each sentence?