Week 5

Today we will review the narrative work you submitted last week (#3), practice on the Maya Angelou piece (link on week 3) and review punctuation guidelines.    There will be a short essay midterm (#4) today after break that ties into the Angelou piece and narrative structure.  So make sure to read the linked text "Champion of the World."

For next week (we will work on it in class, but read and take notes on the material):  Essay (#5)  Summary/Response and Quotation Work:  Read the photocopied chapters "Speak Kindly"  and the others from P.M. Forni's book Choosing Civility.  The chapter takes the form of both process (intructional) and cause/effect analysis.  Respond in summary form to the chapter ideas, the author's main idea and supporting points.   Use the format indicated right here in my instructions to introduce chapter title, book and author. Provide a sufficient and interesting review of his major points and means of support or illustration.   Relate experience of your own or provide commentary to  "talk to" the points he makes and your imagined audience.  Quote several line(s) or parts of lines that convey his ideas particularly well.  Punctuate them as direct quotations and see that they “fit” grammatically in the sentence and paragraph in which you have placed them or set them off.  

*You can review the guidelines for using quotation marks at the following URL:  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/01/

Verb tense sequencing here: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/601/1/ and http://owl.english.purdue.edu/engagement/index.php?category_id=2&sub_category_id=1&article_id=39 and here:  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/539/07/ Appositives:  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/596/1/

Essay (#5): Due week 7:   Summary/Response and Quotation Work:  Read the  photocopied chapter(s)  from P.M. Forni's book Choosing Civility, which takes the form of both process (intructional) and cause/effect analysis.  Respond in summary form to the author's ideas, enough to give a clear sense of the chapter focus and to give a sufficient and interesting review of his major point and means of support or illustration.   Relate experience of your own or provide commentary to  "talk to" the points he makes and your imagined audience.  Quote one or more lines or parts of lines that convey his ideas particularly well.  Punctuate them as direct quotations and see that they “fit” grammatically in the sentence and paragraph in which you have placed them or set them off.  Bring the responses to class.