1. Attribution (author and title presented effectively)
2. Focus on writing task (discuss, not narrate or summarize)
3. Test as crutch (long quotes, inadequate paraphrasing)
4. Reading the book (an important educational experience)
5. Your personal peccadillos (minor) and stylistic problems (major): How will you address them?
Major: lack of ideas; wordiness, repetitive words & phrases; repetitive sentence structures (makes for choppy writing); formal voice and diction, no 1st person
Minor: spelling, apostrophe abuse, punctuate sentence structure
Students looked at their essays, which will be the first document in their sophomore writing portfolios.
Homework: Read introduction to Writing Analytically for tomorrow's class
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