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Mon. 4/11 and Wed. 4/13
Activity 1
In-Class Writing
Click this link to access an imaginary job posting. Apply for this position as directed and post your application on Brightspace In-Class Writing 8. Pretend to be someone other than yourself in your application so that later, we can vote on who deserves the job before finding out who the writer is.
Activity 2
Readings:
Process Analysis Hawaii U. OER
Read Chapter 4.3 Pp 66-67
“Process Writing. Not Just How-to.”
Introduction to Process Analysis
Exercise 1 but you only have to make a list for two of the processes
Click here for classifications of process analysis.
Activity 3
Click here for “How to Argue Effectively” by Dave Barry.
Activity 4
Reading: “Finding the Funny” by Jane Friedman
Activity 5
Click here for “How to Operate a Shower Curtain” by Ian Frasier
Activity 6
Public Domain
Click here for examples of process analysis topics that can help generate ideas.
Activity 7
Click here for an interactive guide to writing process analysis.
Activity 8
Click here for a guide to transitional words and phrases for essays.
iStock Olena Zhuravska
Activity 9
Quiz 7
Please complete the 10-question quiz on process analysis. The quiz will be available from 9:00 a.m., Mon. 5/11 through 11:59 p.m. Sun. 5/17. Students have 90 minutes to complete the quiz. You must complete the quiz in one sitting. Problems occur when students leave and attempt to return to the test. Once the quiz has closed, it will not be reopened and will no longer be visible to students. Please do not request a reopening of a missed quiz.
To access the quiz, navigate to your Brightspace course. On the Quizzes module, click on Quiz 7.
Activity 10
Click here for job application letters from Activity 1. Evaulate the applications and then vote for the candidate you think best presents his/her qualitifications. Survey is located in the Survey module on Brightspace.
Activity 11
Click here for a review of how to correct comma splices and run-on sentences, sometimes known as “fused sentences, along with incomplete sentences (fragments).
Activity 12
Mini-lesson: Semicolons and colons
Exercise 2 p 17
Mini-lesson: Apostrophes p 181-19; Exercise 3 p 19
Activity 13
Active and Passive Voice pp 114-118
Activity 14
Exercises to eliminate Wordy Phrasing
Activity 14
In-class Writing
Please submit your 2-page (at least) Process Analysis essay by midnight, Sunday, May 17. We will read them in class on Monday.
To submit, navigate to your Brightspace homepage, click on the In-class Writing module and submit through the link “In-class Writing 9.”
