Name

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Front

• Name
• Hometown
• Phone number(s) / email address
• High school and date of graduation
• Family
• Work
• Major
• Other English classes and location
• Other languages
• Medical information

Back List at least five interests.
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Finding Subjects and Verbs

• On Monday, Michael Vick pleaded guilty and
  apologized for his involvement in dogfighting.
• Vick and two of his friends caused the deaths of
  at least six dogs.
• Vick has been indefinitely suspended from the NFL
  without pay.
• Should Vick serve the recommended twelve to
  eighteen months in jail?

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• Diagnostic Paragraph
• Write a paragraph on one of the following
  topics
• a difficult decision,
• a special possession, or
• an important goal.
• When I read your paragraph, I will be evaluating
  your
• main point, organization, development (10-15
• sentences), editing, and writing process. Turn
  in all
• notes and drafts as well as your final version.

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The Process of Writing

• Prewriting (planning to write your paper)
• Drafting (writing your paper)
• Revising (changing the content of your paper)
• Editing or Proofreading (correcting, spelling,
  punctuation, and grammatical errors)

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Prewriting

• Purposes
• To find your topic
• To limit your topic
• To get ideas for your paper
• To organize your ideas

• Techniques
• Listing
• Clustering
• Asking Questions
• Focused Freewriting

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Option 1 Use a coordinating conjunction.

• f
• a
• n
• b
• o
• y
• s

• ,for
• ,and
• ,nor
• ,but
• ,or
• ,yet
• ,so

We got a little crazy. We never got caught. We
got a little crazy, but we never got caught.
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How a Paragraph is Different from Freewriting

• Topic Sentence
• -states the main point.
• -must be clear.
• -must be a complete sentence.
• -should be limited.
• Unified
• Developed

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Option 2 Use a semicolon.

• We got a little crazy. We never
• got caught.
• We got a little crazy we never got caught.

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Option 3 Use a conjunctive adverb.
We got a little crazy. We never got caught. We
got a little crazy however, we never got
caught.

• therefore,
• however,
• consequently,
• furthermore,
• in fact,
• then,
• now,

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Methods of Organization

• Chronological (Time)
• Spatial (Location)
• Order of Importance

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Options 4 and 5 Use a subordinating
conjunction.

• after
• although
• because
• before
• if
• since
• when

We got a little crazy. We never got caught. We
got a little crazy although we never got
caught. Although we got a little crazy, we never
got caught.
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Extra Credit (5 points)
Attend the writing errors workshop on Wednesday,
September 26, from 1200-1250 in MT 105C or the
one on Thursday, September 27, from 1215-105 in
MT 105B. The workshop will address common
writing errors such as fragments, run-on
sentences, and comma splices as well as comma and
semicolon errors.
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Types of Paragraphs

• Illustration (Example)
• Description
• Process
• Comparison/Contrast
• Narration
• Cause/Effect
• Persuasion

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Do the examples support the topic sentence? Are
there enough examples? Are they detailed? Are
they organized effectively?
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What overall impression is given in the topic
sentence? What details support the overall
impression? What method did the writer use to
organize the paragraph?
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In small groups, share and discuss the pictures
you brought for your descriptive paragraphs.
Then, help each other come up with a good overall
impression for each picture as well as a topic
sentence that states the overall impression.
Youll be turning in one piece of paper with all
of the topic sentences on it. (Be sure to write
the topic sentence for your picture on a separate
sheet of paper to help you make your plan for
homework.)
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Soul
Hip-hop
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The Paragraph and the Essay

• The Essay
• Introduction
• Thesis Statement
• The Paragraph
• Topic Sentence Body of
• Body of supporting
• supporting paragraphs
• statements
• Concluding sentence
• Conclusion

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A thesis statement

• states the main point of your whole essay
  (without announcing it).
• must be one complete sentence.
• must be clear.
• must be specific.
• may suggest the organization of your paper.

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Four Ways to Link Paragraphs in Essays

• 1. REPEAT key words or ideas from thesis
  statement.
• 2. REFER to words or ideas from preceding
  paragraph.
• 3. USE transitional expressions.
• 4. USE transitional sentences.

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Group Activity

• Put the paragraphs from the essay in the
  correct order. Pay close attention to the
  transitions to help you do so. Also, omit any
  paragraphs that dont seem to belong in the
  essay.