Revising your paper

Hey, how 'bout them Dawgs!!!!!!

1. Open your original. 
2. On the File menu choose Make a copy... That will make a copy. 
3. Give the new version the same title and add "Revision" to the end. 
4. Close the original and edit the new one. 

Remember, go for substantive revisions. Last minute changes of syntax, diction, and punctuation will not garner a better grade, unless of course I noted that the preponderance of errors was so distracting it engendered the low grade in the first place.*

Remember the rewrites are due before we get back.

Best of luck and Happy New Year!


*I hope you all remembered to study your vocab a bit.

Happy Break!!!!

Since we didn't watch it in class today and some of you didn't see it elsewhere, here is the "Holiday TTV."

I hope you all have a wonderful break, a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!



And to those of us that will be grading (me) and writing (many of you), may our responsibilities not drag on and get in the way of holiday festivities and watching too much college football.

Anecdote Paper

I spoke with several people today who misunderstood what an anecdote was and essentially wrote a reflection paper. Like I said in class, please look to the model as a model and think creative writing / show, don't tell. Each anecdote may not convey your whole purpose, but all of them together should say something. Just as in Indian Education, if you read the first anecdote by itself, you assume the paper is about learning to fight and stand up for himself. When it's put in context with the rest of the stories, it takes on additional meaning.

I thought things were clear, but since they obviously were not, let's push the paper back 24 hours to Friday to give people time to rework things if they need to.

Not everyone will see this. I'll send the same thing out in email, but please use your social networking powers to get word out to the rest of your classmates.