Inclass Writing Should college and higher education be

In-class Writing Should college and higher education be available to everyone? Why or why not?

Class Format • • • In-class writing: 6: 45 -6: 55 Review summarization: 7: 00 -7: 30 Review Delblanco: 7: 30 -8: 00 BREAK Planning for Essay #1: 8: 15 -9: 00 Drafting Essay #1: 9: 00 -end

Summary • Condenses information from a source (e. g. , a textbook, article, website) • When writing a summary: – Name the source – Restate the overall meaning of the source in your own words

Summarizing is NOT: • Half-copying, or patchwriting, the author’s sentences. • Mixing the author’s phrases with your own without using quotation marks. • Plugging synonyms into the author’s sentence structure.

Sample Summaries

Summary Writing Tips 1. ) Reread the original until you understand its full meaning. 2. ) Set the original aside, and write your summary without looking at the original.

Summary Writing Tips 3. ) Compare your summary to the original to make sure that your version accurately expresses all the essential information in a new form. 4. ) Use quotation marks to identify any unique term or phraseology you have borrowed exactly from the source.

Summary • Condenses information from a source (e. g. , a textbook, article, website) • When writing a summary: – Name the source – Restate the overall meaning of the source in your own words

Revised Summaries Summary #1: As health policy experts Mello, Studdert, and Brennan point out, opposition to food and beverage regulation is similar to the opposition of early tobacco legislation: the public views the issue as one of personal responsibility rather than one requiring government intervention (2602).

Revise Summaries Summary #2: In research papers students often quote excessively, failing to keep quoted material down to a desirable level. Since the problem usually originates during note taking, it is essential to minimize the material recorded verbatim (Lester 46 -47).

Review: Critical Reading

Step 1: Read for comprehension • Re-read the article to yourself. Mark the following: – Unfamiliar words and phrases – Points of difficulty • Discuss what you marked in your writing group.

Step 2: Determine the elements of the rhetorical situation • Genre: What type of text are you reading? What are the conventions of this text? What can you expect from this text based on the genre? • Author(s): Who wrote the text? • Audience: For whom is the text intended? Specific groups? People with a specific level of knowledge about the topic? Others? • Topic (s): What is text about? What is the subject? • Occasion: What compelled the author(s) to write the text? Was there a particular event or occurrence that inspired the text? • Purpose: Why was the text written?

In-class Discussion • What are three reasons Delblanco argues that college still matters? • What type of education does Delblanco argue is the most important, and how does he support that argument? • What is Delblanco’s conclusion about American education?

Essay #1

Planning and Drafting • What is an argumentative essay? • What is the writing process? • How can I get over writer’s block?

Thesis Statement • An argumentative essay makes a claim about a topic and justifies this claim with specific evidence. • The claim could be an opinion, an evaluation, or an interpretation.

Thesis Statement • The goal of the argumentative essay is to convince the audience that the claim is true based on the evidence provided. • Claim = Thesis statement

Thesis Statement • The thesis statement usually appears at the end of the first paragraph of an essay. • Your thesis statement should be specific—it should cover only what you will discuss in your paper and should be supported with specific evidence.

Thesis Statement • Your ideas may change as you write, so you may need to revise your thesis statement to reflect exactly what you have discussed in the essay.

Sample Writing Task State your position on whether high school graduates should be required to take a year off to pursue community service projects before entering college.

Sample Thesis Statement High school graduates should be required to take a year off to pursue community service projects before entering college in order to increase their maturity and global awareness.

Important Components 1 st part: • A phrase that contains an auxiliary verb (e. g. “should”) - OR • A declarative statement (e. g. “is”) 2 nd part: • Words or phrases used to explain why (e. g. “because”)

Sample Thesis Statement 1. ) High school graduates should be required to take a year off to pursue community service projects before entering college 2. ) in order to increase their maturity and global awareness.

Sample Outline Paragraph 1: Maturity (topic) • HOW or WHY would taking a year off before college increase students’ maturity? • What types of supporting details can be used to show this is true?

Sample Outline Paragraph 2: Global awareness (topic) • HOW or WHY would taking a year off before college increase students’ global awareness? • What types of supporting details can be used to show this is true?

Essay #1 – Writing Task State your position on the importance (or unimportance) of attending college. Provide support for your position through the use of supporting details, including personal experience as well as the class readings.

In-class activity • Groups 1 -4: Compile a list of reasons why attending college is important. • Groups 5 -8: Compile a list of reasons why attending college is not important.