ENGL&101 – English Composition I (Online) – The Harlem Renaissance
Trimble Writing Exercise #12
This writing exercise has three parts. Use this form to complete all three parts and then submit it to me using the drop box
at the bottom of the Finals Week page.
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?
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: