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| Define the power of reading (memorize): syllabus |
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| The power of reading and writing lies in making discrimination, in unveiling alternative ways of seeing the world in which we live. |
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| The surest way to improve your writing (memorize): syllabus ? |
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| The surest way to improve your writing is to ground your essay in questions or problems that will motivate your thinking and help establish a purposeful relationship with your audience |
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| Writers of thesis based prose seek?(memorize): syllabus |
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| Writers of thesis-based prose seek a final product that poses a good question, has an engaging thesis and supports that thesis with strong arguments and convincing details |
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| Define and identify a dependent clause |
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| Dependent Clause: contains a subject and a predicate but does not express a complete thought, can not stand alone as a sentence |
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| Define and identify a independent clause |
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| Independent Clause: contain a subject a predicate and expresses a complete thought; it can stand alone as a complete sentence |
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| Semi Colons: independent clause followed by a conjunctive adverb, separate items in a series when they contain commas |
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| Colons: Pause that anticipates further information |
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| Commas: Separate items in a series, set off additional information, come before a conjunction. |
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| Connotation and denotation of words |
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Denotation-direct meaning or a dictionary definition
Connotation-emotional association with that word |
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| Three ingredients of a good question |
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| 1) Problematic2) Significant 3) Interesting |
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| Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of open and closed forms of writings. Be able to apply this knowledge. |
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Closed- thesis; explicit; thesis is organized; paragraph has developed thesis
Open- Story-like narrative, implicit theme, mystery, descriptive, emotional |
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| WIC- reflecting; have an opinion and state it strongly |
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| Key variables in a writer?s rhetorical context?audience, purpose, genre: know, apply, discuss |
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| Good writers always pose questions about their purpose, their audience, and their genre |
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| Purposes of writing: table of contents, chapters 5-16 |
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| To learn, explore, inform, analyze and synthesize, persuade and reflect |
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| Target Audiences, VALS (Values and Lifestyle System) |
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| Needs driven consumers, outer-directed, Inner-directed. |
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1) Catch the reader’s attention
2) Summarize what the essay is going to be about |
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