Tag Archives: editing

3/3/2014

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We are now in a mad rush to get things finished before the end of the term. We have lost 2 days because of inclement weather, and we’ve also lost 2 days because people didn’t do the work I left for them when we had a sub. 🙁

The schedule for the next three weeks are on the board.

AshleyToday, we took our memoir and for each sentence, wrote down the subject and verb for each sentence. Turn this in for a grade. What I expect you to do with this information is use it to look for run on sentences, fragments, subject/verb agreement, and verb tense. I’ve noticed that we have lots of students who have run-ons and keep switching verb tense. If you notice that you have multiple subject and verbs in a sentence, check it out to see if it’s a run-on! When you look at your verbs, check to make sure they are all past tense. If you see something wrong, FIX IT ON YOUR PAPER.

People are making changes INDEPENDENT of their paper! What’s the point in writing three introductions if you don’t use them? What’ the point of finding your “be” verbs if you don’t change half of them? Make the revisions and edits to the paper!

Lastly, record yourself reading your essay in Audacity. This is an editing tool. This isn’t so I can listen to you read out loud – it’s so you can identify mistakes. If you stumble while you are reading, it’s probably because there is a grammatical audacitymistake. I don’t care if you make a mistake while reading – THAT’S THE POINT OF THE ACTIVITY – to identify where your mistakes are!

The two grades are finding the subject(s) and verb(s) for each sentence and recording you reciting your essay.

We will work on our King Arthur Major grade for three days, and we will publish the Memoir on Friday! Hooray!

2/28/2012

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Bryan E. kicks it old school! Thanks to him, we started out watching Sir Mix-a-Lot’s video over his hooptie. Pretty funny, and now we see where Riley gets her dance moves from.

Today, we pimped out our formatting – make sure you have a double-spaced paper with 12 point Times New Roman font. Do a Header. Do a Head-ING that indicates your last name and the page number. Give the paper a working title. Riley walked us through that, so if you weren’t here today or didn’t have your hooptie to edit, then you may need some help.

The last two things we edited today were your introduction and word choice. Remember to keep this as an ACADEMIC paper – no informal slang, cussing, or text speak. Use the best words possible.

REMEMBER THAT YOU NEED TO DO ALL THESE EDITS WHILE TRACKING THE CHANGES IN WORD.

2/27/2012

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Do you know what a hooptie is? Well, you do now! Riley must have watched one too many episodes of Pimp My Ride, because she is telling us that we are going to Pimp our Papers!

Remember on Friday she told us to take our paragraph “nuggets” and put them all into one word document in order? Well, that’s our paper! It’s ok. It probabaly doesn’t look like much of a paper right now, but we are going to turn this Pinto into a Cadillac!

Today, we pimped it out by looking at our organization, our thesis sentence, and lastly, our rhetorical strategies.

Make sure that you are TRACKING YOUR CHANGES in WORD. Riley will be looking at your tracked changes on Friday. There is a DROP BOX JUST FOR TRACKED CHANGES.

Remember – she expects everyone to start out with a hooptie and then turn it into a Cadillac. The tracked changes SHOW that process, much like Pimp My Ride shows the PROCESS of fixing the car up.

3/30/2012

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Aaaachooo! We sneezed out Sneeze #5 today, and then we spent about ten minutes editing and revising ONE of those sneezes so that Cap’n Riley can grade it. Edit it so that it is mechanically sound (spelling, grammar, punctuation, run ons, sentence structure, etc) and revise it to fix confusing sentences, take away unnecessary stuff, or add to it.

We then read The Battle with Grendel – it took about twelve minutes. Not bad at all. And it made me hungry for chicken legs – that’s actually what I had for lunch today! It was FATED!

We ended the day doing an Open Mind Diagram for Beowulf.

  • Do this in PowerPoint. Make sure it is Portrait, not Landscaped.
  • Find an outline of a head or profile.
  • Find three images that represent Beowulf.
  • Around each image, write four words or phrases. If you use phrases, I want no more than 3 words in the phrase. (3 images X 4 words = 12 words total).
  • Two quotes that are correctly cited that show Beowulf’s personality or his actions.

 

The rubric is in LMS if you want to see specifics.