Goal for the day: To overcome barriers for revision
We started this class with everyone dividing their Writing to Truth assignment into at least five different sections. Students then ranked these sections in the terms of the sections they most wanted to revise. I explained that often we are intimidated by the wall of text when we come to revision and just tweak the edges.
One way to get past this hurdle is two divide your text into distinct segments and work on these smaller bits of text. By creating white space on the page and writing notes on the page, you are able to find the riches that are buried in your flattest prose.
We also discussed standard revision practices such as reading your work aloud and replacing adjectives and adverbs with better nouns and verbs.
The rest of the time was given over to working on different assignments
Assignment for Thursday, October 2nd
Keep working on your assignments!!
We started this class with everyone dividing their Writing to Truth assignment into at least five different sections. Students then ranked these sections in the terms of the sections they most wanted to revise. I explained that often we are intimidated by the wall of text when we come to revision and just tweak the edges.
One way to get past this hurdle is two divide your text into distinct segments and work on these smaller bits of text. By creating white space on the page and writing notes on the page, you are able to find the riches that are buried in your flattest prose.
We also discussed standard revision practices such as reading your work aloud and replacing adjectives and adverbs with better nouns and verbs.
The rest of the time was given over to working on different assignments
Assignment for Thursday, October 2nd
Keep working on your assignments!!