- Brainstorming -Freewriting -Looping -Clustering
Begin shaping/prewriting your essay. Write down the following elements of your essay:
-Subject
-Narrowed Topic
-Purpose
-Main Idea
-Audience
Decide which shaping strategy you want to use.
Tomorrow we will work on an informal outline.
Homework:
Read & Do Rhetorical Analysis Assignment
p. 412-14 "Putting Down the Gun" The Language of Composition
Writing Exercise: Sentence Combining
Try combining those sentences into three, two,
or even just one clear and coherent sentence: in the process of combining, omit
repetitive words and phrases (such as "She was") but keep all of the
original details.
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She was our Latin teacher.
·
We were in high school.
·
She was tiny.
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She was a birdlike woman.
·
She was swarthy.
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She had dark eyes.
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Her eyes were sparkling.
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Her hair was graying.
