PA#2 (Interview a Student in the Class)

PA#2

Dear Students,

For your second paragraph assignment, you will be interviewing (and be interviewed by) another student in the class.

Please write a paragraph about that student. Make sure that you capture something -- not everything -- important about your colleague. Don't try to say everything. Narrow the focus to one critical quality.

That focus will allow you to provide the kind of evidence and detail that makes the paragraph real and engaging.

For example, let's say the student is on the golf team. Surely, the student experienced one moment that ensured that he or she would be a golfer forever. Describe the student's interest, but make it real to the reader. Capture that moment.

Post the paragraph here as a comment to this assignment by T/9/2 at 5 PM. Bring a hard copy to class on W/93.

PA#1

Hello, students,

For your first paragraph/ blog assignment, I'd like you to consider your own writing process. Just what do you do when you write? How do you start? When do you start? What do you at subsequent stages? How does your approach to the writing process help or hinder your ability to write effectively (and on time)?

Check out the first three chapters of the Handbook. Is there anything there that can help you be a better writer? Or is the whole mess just a bunch of English teacher BS that you've heard a million times before? If you argue the latter, you'd better be ready to justify your claim. :-)

Keep in mind that you are being asked to write a paragraph here.  In part, your writing will help me determine what you think a paragraph is and how it should look.