It’s week 4 of the writing class. What have we done so far?
Writing Assignments
1 Income and Longevity
- filter necessary info
- create hypothesis
- prove by finding causes
- prove by finding consequences
- correlation and causation
2 Murder Mystery
- writing drill
- paragraph pattern – fact, warrant, mini conclusion
- inquiry method
3 Room 8
- Summarize story
- Analyze and evaluate message
- Find and interpret metaphors, symbols or inferences
- Create through abstraction
This Week
Let’s take a pause from new writing. It’s time to catch up on the rewriting. It’s also time to attack an important writing skill: editing.
Here are 5 editing exercises:
- pronoun problems
- choppy sentences
- poor parallel structure
- wordy sentences
- 100 word paragraphs with multiple errors