Class Work
1. Introduce your audience to at least three additional students in class. Listen to the other introductions. Ask questions to help the author clarify the identity of the intended audience.
2. Sharing of topics
3. Brief discussion of organization -
4. Looking at introductions - how you begin makes a difference.
What do paid professionals do to get the paper going? See PP. 398 + in Between Worlds. Look at introductions written by professionals in Between Worlds. What techniques were used? Were any of the introductory paragraphs effective? Why or why not? p. 71, p. 82, p. 113, p. 186, p. 198, p. 202, p. 233, p. 239 (Group activity)
5. Grammar moment - avoiding run-on sentences and comma splices. FANBOYS!!!!! to the rescue!
Homework
1. Write the rough draft of your comparison/contrast essay. Pay careful attention to organization and to the introduction. Remember, a good introduction must capture the attention of the readers and make them want to read more. Consider using famous quotations, quotes from experts, startling statistics, amazing facts, a brief narrative, a quotation from an interview, lines from a song or poem, lines from a movie, etc.
For the body of the paper, be sure to use one of the patterns of organization for the comparison/contrast essay - point-by-point or topic vs. topic. (The patterns were on the board.)
You must use a quotation from one of the articles in the book. In addition, you need a quotation from an interview and information cited from at least two additional articles.
Bring your Works Cited page as well. Don't forget Easybib for ease of creation!
Bring the draft to class on Thursday.
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