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2/28/2014

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Today was another day of editing. We are getting closer and closer to having a final copy, but some of you need to get caught up!

So far, we have done:

  • HIGHLIGHTING – you were supposed to highlight TALKING, THINKING, SEEING, DOING.11
  • REVISING for DETAILS – you were supposed to add talking, thinking, seeing, and doing to your paper and make sure you had at least 300 words.
  • BE verbs – you need to find all instances of BE verbs (make sure you include contractions), and write down how many instances appear in your paper and REPLACE 1/2 of them with action verbs

There are drop boxes for each of them.

Today, we worked on Introductions: you’ll need to write three different introductions. Look at the examples in BB. Turn in your three introductions to the Drop Box and choose the BEST one to use as your intro. If you want, you can use the other introductions in your essay if you find a place for them.

Lastly, we worked on sentence variety. In the folder, there are 11 sentence types. Make sure you have one of each sentence type in your essay. If you don’t REVISE a sentence so that you do. Drop this changed copy in BB.

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.