BTI Expository Writing Week 13 - November 26, 2013 Marissa Kluger marissakluger@yahoo.com 2539506617@qq.com (Note: If you email me on Saturday or Sunday, I will respond first thing on Monday) Office Hours: By appointment only SD408 Week 13 schedule Call roll Ch.7 wrap-up TEM-4 composition 2 feedback Revising & editing exercises Peer review Journal entry Odds & Ends Week 12 assignments Chapter 7 What does “explaining” mean? Are explanatory writing and expository writing the same? What is one of the “distinguishing characteristics” of explanatory writing? What questions may you ask yourself during explanatory writing? What three guidelines should you keep in mind when writing to explain? Explain defining and the four principles to keep in mind when doing so. Explain describing and some techniques to help interest or entice readers. Discuss comparing or contrasting and the different methods that can be used. Chapter 7 Define analyzing and synthesizing, and is there any link between the two? What advice does the author give about synthesis essays? Define and discuss reporting, reporting for news and events, and reporting research. What is summarizing and abstracting, in ten words or less? What’s the difference between a summary and an abstract? Where does the author suggest placing the thesis statement in this kind of writing (informational/explanatory/expository)? TEM-4 composition 2 Content: festival introduction (origins, customs or traditional ways of celebrating, contemporary ways of celebrating), what you know (regional differences), how do you celebrate (as a child and now) Organization: two-three paragraphs, no forced conclusion Language: Dragon Boat Festival, Double Fifth Festival, the festival, Duanwu, the Chinese lunar calendar, on May fifth or on the fifth of May, three-day public holiday, dragon boat races, zongzi or glutinous rice dumplings, Chinese dates or red dates or dates, Miluo River, drowned himself, omit committed suicide, Chu Emperor, the country of Chu, Spring and Autumn Period, commemorate or remember Appropriateness: avoid inserting personal feelings beyond the discussion of the government-mandated holiday or time off; this also concerns essays that discussed Korea also recognizing it as a festival Revising & editing exercise First, look over your essay and find any areas I have underlined, placed a question mark next to, given you additional word choice, or corrected any inaccuracies. Next, try to revise or edit them for improvements. If you feel it is necessary, or at the very least easier to read, you can rewrite your revised and edited composition onto another piece of paper. Peer review First round: Comment on the essay’s content. Does the author address every part of the prompt or only some parts? Second round: Comment on the essay’s organization. In what ways do you feel the author could improve their organization. Do they need a conclusion or would their essay work without one? Third round: Comment on the essay’s language. Has the author utilized the right language for the prompt (e.g. student consumers, Dragon Boat Festival) Fourth round: Comment on the essay’s appropriateness Journal Writing Observing more carefully what you read about (e.g. leisure reading) Defining what, exactly, your field of study is really about (e.g translation) Wondering on the meaning of what you are studying and thinking about (e.g. translation, expository writing or thoughts) Finding connections in your personal life, connect to other courses, and connect one part of your course to another (e.g. personal life, expository writing to another course, TEM-4 writing to another part of another course) Responding to class readings (e.g. assigned books, articles etc.) Reacting to what took place in class (e.g. class discussion, instructor’s lecture or comments) Assessing, or reflecting on the value of journals themselves (e.g. writing about journal writing) Odds & Ends If you sent me journal entries, I will send you feedback before next week’s class. I am still working on combining sentences feedback. The subject of your email should be as follows: Your English name, Class 1/2, assignment (or reason for email) Week 13 assignments Next week: TEM-4 composition 3 Suggested assignment: Journal Writing Questions? http://stsxisuacademicwriting.weebly.com/inde x.html