Thursday, September 08, 2011
No Writing 12 This School Year!
Writing 12 is taking a break in the 2011-2012 school year. In its place, I'm teaching a new course called Drama: Film and Television 12. Learn about it here.
Thursday, June 02, 2011
About Revision
Marco asked about materials to help with revision at the end of today's class. Although that's what we've been doing to some extent in every class, I've not given you any specific resources. Sorry about that! I've located some good ones online to help you to do a better job revising.
Here's a very good general resource: Revision at the University of North Carolina Writing Center
Here's another one for fiction: Revision Help for the Fiction Writer
And another that gives great ideas for anything fictional: Stages of Revision
To learn how to track changes in Word watch this video.
Here's a very good general resource: Revision at the University of North Carolina Writing Center
Here's another one for fiction: Revision Help for the Fiction Writer
And another that gives great ideas for anything fictional: Stages of Revision
To learn how to track changes in Word watch this video.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
For the Portfolio
If you would like to share anything for your portfolio, please put it here. For example, you could post a paragraph on your most challenging assignment. Or, if you like, you can tell us about the assignment you are proudest of and why.
If you share here, the class (and teacher) can help you with the details and make sure you have a better result.
I'd also be interested in your comments on your best sentences (taken from your six pieces chosen for the portfolio). Remember that sentences could be good for a number of reasons: because of their structure; because of good use of vocabulary; because it has a wonderful, poetic rhythm . . .
Good luck. I'm here to help you! Oh, and wasn't that collaborative story a lot of fun? Definitely I should do that one again.
If you share here, the class (and teacher) can help you with the details and make sure you have a better result.
I'd also be interested in your comments on your best sentences (taken from your six pieces chosen for the portfolio). Remember that sentences could be good for a number of reasons: because of their structure; because of good use of vocabulary; because it has a wonderful, poetic rhythm . . .
Good luck. I'm here to help you! Oh, and wasn't that collaborative story a lot of fun? Definitely I should do that one again.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Travel Journal
Write a short article about a place that you have visited as a traveller. As we read in Martin Li’s article, “Remember that most places you write about will already have been written about before. Your challenge is to find something new and original to say.”
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Limericks
Do your best to capture the essence of "limerickness" by not being too serious in subject matter, but much more serious in terms of rhythm and rhyme. Here's a link to a rhyming dictionary. Remember to choose easily rhymed words to simplify your task.
Anything at All: Old Villanelles, Articles on the PALC
Here's the place for the unclassified, the continuing, the in process.
A Favourite Tree
Especially important: "Let something happen around the tree." This prompt could lead to fiction or can be a true account. As you wish!
Friday, April 29, 2011
Other Writing in Progress (including villanelles)
Put the writing here for us to see before next week.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Villanelle: Technically Easy?
Well, that's what Conrad Geller thinks in the handout. Try for, at least, a couplet to work from, but writing a whole villanelle is also acceptable. Good luck!
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