The course is over for now, but the posts keep coming, intermittently.
Homework for April 9
Please read chapter 13 in Tufte on “Cohesion.” Process what she is trying to explain, then write a 5 to 7 sentence paragraph that demonstrates cohesion in your writing. Make your example interesting. Be prepared to discuss the decisions you made when writing and revising this piece. Computer printed please.
Sample Exam
You will see that I have posted last year’s second exam for your reading pleasure.
No class on March 21
Remember that our class is cancelled for Thursday, March 21st. Below are the assignments:
Homework assignment due Thursday, March 28th
• READ Partridge Chapters 9-12
• Finish up “Spaces Between Words”
• Read examples from Tufte on “Sentence Openers and Inversion”
• Craft 15 sentences, three for each section below: Conjunctions, Omission of Conjunctions, Items in a Series, the Correlatives, Coordination. Bring these to class, typed. These should be sentences of your own devising, preferably with a coherent storyline, that play with the issues described by Tufte in her chapter on “Conjunctions and Coordination”
New Punctuation
8 New Punctuation Marks We Desperately Need
Weren’t we just talking about something like this?
Preparing for the First Test
Here is some material to help you prepare for the first test.
1st Test Prep — what to read/what to know
1st Test Prep 2 — a short version of the test
1st Test Prep 3 — the test I gave Spring 2012
Some Old Formatting & Punctuation
Silent letters
A video considering silent letters in different languages.
Syntactical Structures
Here is the grammar I want you to know in a handy guide to syntax, sentence structure, and punctuation.
Syntactical Structures, Units of Meaning, and Hints for Punctuation
In a Station of the Metro
. . . as it originally appeared at its first publication in Poetry, April 1913.
In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd :
Petals on a wet, black bough .