Tentative Unit 1 Schedule
 Week 2
 1/19- MLK Day-No Class
 1/21-Using library databases
(bring computer to class)
 1/23- Intro to Exploratory
Narrative & Source
evaluations
 Week 3
 1/26-Research questions and
results
 Minor Essay 1 Due
 1/28-Class cancelled (teacher
workshop)
 1/30-Strategies for
introductions
 Week 4
 2/2-Reflective writing and
body paragraphs
 2/4- Synthesizing sources
 2/6-First Draft peer review
 Week 5
 2/9- Strategies for
conclusions
 2/11- Grammar & Editing
 2/13-Peer review & unit 1
wrap up
 2/15-Exploratory Narrative
Due
Today’s goals
 Practice applying the grammatical rules we discussed
last class
 Practice editing a paper together for both global and
local revisions
 Peer review the second draft of your exploratory
narratives
Group Activity: Grammar
Worksheet
 In your unit 1 groups
 Edit the sentences on the grammar worksheet based
on our discussion in class and your previous
knowledge of English grammar
 For each sentence, provide an explanation as to why
you made a particular revision
 Because we have not had any grammar lessons
previously, this assignment will be graded on
thoroughness and effort
Two skills of editing:
 Perception:
 Your ability to find or notice grammatical/ spelling errors, problems
with MLA (or other) formatting and citations, or alternate,
improved ways of phrasing sentences.
 Read through the text carefully, slowly, and multiple times (reading
aloud can often help as well)
 Practice! The more you edit, the better at it you will become
 Knowledge:
 Your knowledge of grammar rules and MLA (or other) formatting
conventions
 If perception helps you find errors, your knowledge helps you figure
out how to correct them
 Either one of these skills are useless without the other. You must
practice and hone both for them to be effective
Editing and Revision
 Two types of revision:
 Local revision: whenever you make changes to a text that affect
only one or two sentences.
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Grammar and spelling revision usually falls into this category
Local revisions should be focused on towards the end of the writing
process, after global revisions or changes that affect the content of the
essay
 Global revision: when a change in one part of your essay affects
other parts of your essay
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Any changes to your thesis statement or thesis question will likely fall
here
Also includes changes to the main ideas of the essay, the structure,
purpose, audience, and genre
Changes to topic sentences and transitions also fall here
You should be globally revising your essay throughout the writing
process and certainly with every new draft. The most important revisions
Editing focus today
 At this point in the development of our essays (since we
have gone through our first draft and completed all sources
and the conclusion), we can begin to focus on local
revisions as well as global revisions
 Local
 Check MLA format and citations
 Look out for sentence level grammatical issues, such as
comma usage, incorrect words, etc
 Global:
 Focus on new source entries (4 through 6)
 Evaluate thesis question & results
 Evaluate conclusion (does it sum up the research findings?
How does it leave the reader with something memorable?)
Group Activity: Editing Practice
 In your unit 1 groups
 Read through the sample essay provided
 Edit the writing using global and local revisions to
create a polished and finished draft
 On a separate sheet of paper, explain any changes you
have made. These can be short, two or three word
explanations. You do not need to explain any
corrections in spelling
Group Activity: Second Draft Peer
Review
 In groups of 2 students (choose someone other than your last peer review partner)
 Exchange the second draft of your Exploratory Narrative and answer the questions below.
Make sure to share the answers with your peer reviewee before turning them in.
1.
What is your reaction to the student’s introduction? Does it sufficiently grab your
interest
2.
What is the student’s research question? (take this directly from the text) Is this
research question clear and open?
3.
How would you evaluate the sources that have been found for the essay? Are they
credible and current? Do they examine the issue from multiple perspectives? Are these
properly documented on the Works Cited page?
4.
How would you evaluate the critical thinking and reflection in the body paragraphs of
the essay? Does the student sufficiently evaluate each source from multiple
perspectives?
5.
What is your reaction to the student’s conclusion? What is the student’s final answer to
their research question? Does the writer leave the reader with something memorable?
6.
Identify at least one positive, strong element of the essay and explain why you feel it is
strong. Then identify one area of the essay that you feel needs improvement and how it
could be improved
Homework
 Review grammar material (by Monday)in EW if necessary
 3-17
 318-339,
 385-395
 340-354
 Revise and refine your exploratory narratives to reach a final
version for submission next Thursday (due 2/19)
 Submit exploratory narrative second draft to Turnitin.com over
the weekend
 Password: 4English (case sensitive)
 Class ID
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U20: 9546112
U23: 9546614
U65: 9546623