Lesson 13: Edit Your Draft
Huh? Do what with the what?
Edit:
Edit:
Ahhhh! To edit means to correct written material.
So for this lesson, you'll be correcting errors in your draft.
My what?
Your draft.
Draft: here meaning the written material you have completed in lessons 7-11, then revised in lesson 12. For some of you, that's the whole 5 paragraph essay, for many of you it's just the introductory paragraph.
So, take minute to find the essay/paragraph you wrote about Dr. Martin Luther King's 'A Letter from Birmingham Jail' and pull it up.
You'll be making changes to it as you move through this lesson, and at the end of the 6 slides in the Connexus lesson, you should have a prr--ee-ttt-yy darn good piece of writing, whether it's the whole 5 paragraph or just the intro paragraph.
Also, I take offence to the video on slide 1 of the lesson. That's not what I sound like at all! That's what math teachers sound like :)
Learn, practice and implement the following:
On slide 3 of the lesson, we are given 5 hyperlinks of grammar rules to learn. Hopefully, you've been taught this stuff somewhere along the way, and this is just review,
IF NOT, you should take notes, write down examples, practice, practice, practice with worksheets (let me know, I can give you some) on your own time. These grammar rules are the basics and you are expected to know them from here on out.
The videos might help:
Sentence Structure
IF NOT, you should take notes, write down examples, practice, practice, practice with worksheets (let me know, I can give you some) on your own time. These grammar rules are the basics and you are expected to know them from here on out.
The videos might help:
Sentence Structure
Does every sentence in your essay/paragraph have a who? and a what about it?
Take the time to check now. If you find a sentence without a who or what about it? add it in! That's what editing is! Finding and fixing mistakes!
View this next video in the Bike series for help with where to place commas:
Take the time to check now. If you find a sentence without a who or what about it? add it in! That's what editing is! Finding and fixing mistakes!
View this next video in the Bike series for help with where to place commas:
The third video in the session is helpful as well!
What the hay, let's watch the fourth video too!
There, that should just about do it!
Make sure that your essay/paragraph has all the right parts arranged in all the right ways.
Make sure that your essay/paragraph has all the right parts arranged in all the right ways.
Assessment: Portfolio
Please upload your edited draft of your 'A Letter from Birmingham Jail' into the dropbox for this lesson.
ignore: turnitin
On slide 5 of this lesson you are given the directions:
This assessment requires a TurnItIn.com originality report. Please visit the message board for tutorial on using TurnItIn.com. Failure to include the originality report with this work will result in a score of a 1 on this assessment.
You may ignore these directions.
This assessment requires a TurnItIn.com originality report. Please visit the message board for tutorial on using TurnItIn.com. Failure to include the originality report with this work will result in a score of a 1 on this assessment.
You may ignore these directions.
Getting close to the end!!
There are only 2 more lessons before the collaboration project is due and the semester exam is opened!!