tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21152738.post4302761440528673340..comments2024-03-27T07:37:25.421-04:00Comments on Excelsior: Dash away all!Bevhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05412883073330413390noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21152738.post-7863362442824593432016-03-30T08:04:31.178-04:002016-03-30T08:04:31.178-04:00This is a great idea! I do a similar sentence-vari...This is a great idea! I do a similar sentence-variety exercise in first-year writing classes and a more intensive version in upper-level writing classes, but it might be helpful to reinforce this lesson in a wider range of classes.Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05412883073330413390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21152738.post-29189659211331012262016-03-30T07:50:12.924-04:002016-03-30T07:50:12.924-04:00One of my professors had this killer assignment in...One of my professors had this killer assignment in every single English class he taught (and I took a few of his). It was called "10 sentences," and it covered several different ways to write a sentence. We had to write ten sentences about various things we'd read during the term. Then, he'd mark up the paper, and we would have to do corrections. This was, for me, one of the most difficult assignments I'd ever done; I had to rewrite the paper over and over. I learned what a main clause was!<br /><br />I can't remember all of the sentences forms, but he had most of the major ones.<br /><br />1. Main clause<br />2. Main clause, (and/yet/but/or) MC.<br />3. MC; MC.<br />4. Subordinate clause, MC.<br /><br />Wish I could remember all of them. The prof is Doyle Walls at Pacific University, and perhaps he would be willing to share. I learned so much from him. My proudest moment was when I received one of my school newspaper articles back in the intercampus mail. He circled several parts and said "I see sentences!" For my part, I was just glad my editor had let me work in a semi-colon.pennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07727291511829658991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21152738.post-67740743267182736742016-03-28T15:34:52.369-04:002016-03-28T15:34:52.369-04:00Mine also have trouble with punctuation, but the g...Mine also have trouble with punctuation, but the growing phenomenon that most irks me is the lack of paragraphing. Some will write paragraphs that go on for pages. When I point out that subheadings (which are usually appropriate to the genre in which they're writing -- a review of the literature) are generally meant to group *multiple* paragraphs, a little light bulb goes on. But apparently, unlike me, they haven't got any sort of internal warning system that looks at a whole page without a single sign of a paragraph break and says "something's missing here." <br /><br />Their return keys do work, since they're able to produce bulleted lists and such. <br /><br />And then the instructional designers who support online classes tell us we need to write instructions "for the web," with lots of bulleted lists, which of course (besides resulting in even longer assignments -- and mine are long enough already) would be a lost opportunity to model paragraphing. Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21152738.post-13632340759813362082016-03-28T14:14:45.102-04:002016-03-28T14:14:45.102-04:00Same to you!Same to you!Bevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05412883073330413390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21152738.post-47431288701268780302016-03-28T14:05:59.730-04:002016-03-28T14:05:59.730-04:00😱,😱. 😪📚‼️ 👎👎💣;😈😈. 😑🤔--😡😰.😱,😱. 😪📚‼️ 👎👎💣;😈😈. 😑🤔--😡😰.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com