Conversations. Suggestions for preparing Essay I.
Getting started:
104. New Practices, 1 and 2
70. Writing habits, practices
82. Murray: review some of his "habits"
150. Strategies for Writing-to-Learn/Invention Strategies
(adjust to Essay 1 requirements as appropriate)
187. Bartholomae: academic writing: coping with other voices
While underway:
380. Revision / what you said, not how!
Getting done:
382. Proofreading
Style:
324. Format, citations: MLA style.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_s1.html
Note underlining for titles, emphasis: preferred alternative now is italics.
Note especially the format required for quotations:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/04/
Footnotes or endnotes are not appropriate (for Essay I).
Document created September 29 2008