ENGL&101 – English Composition I (Online & Hybrid)
Trimble Writing Exercise #11
This writing exercise has three parts. Use this form to complete all three parts and then submit it
to me using the drop box in the Week 11 Module.
Part 1: How did you go about choosing which essay to revise? Once you decided, what strategy
(or strategies) did you take to improve the essay? Your response should be at least 100 words.
Part 2: Paste the introduction to your Revision in this space and explain, in at least 50 words,
what is different about this intro from the original version.
Part 3: Review Trimble’s section on punctuation, and then quote four sentences from your
revision that were NOT in the original draft you turned in: one that uses a semicolon correctly,
one that uses parentheses correctly, one that uses a colon correctly, and one that uses a dash
(or dashes) correctly. Paste your sentences in this space:
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Semicolon sentence:
Parentheses sentence:
Dash (or dashes) sentence:
Colon sentence: