Today's blog is sponsored by Kojima.Today we did an exercise in outlining. We used an essay called "Show Me Your Smile" from a student in last year's essay contest. It's a very nice essay. Here is my version of the outline. Yours may be a little different.
All assignments were due today. Last week's timed writing and today's outlining were the main "test". I found that your writing was the best way to check that you understand the content. We have done approximately 12 writing assignments. I think most of you worked very hard.
If you do not see your blog listed on the right, please take a moment to send me an e-mail. You should also be deciding the topic of your essay for the essay contest. Do some brainstorming and send me your best ideas, too, or post them on your blog. For example, my brainstorm may be these things that I am interested in or that I have been thinking about lately: Linux, Aung San Suu Kyi, Chinese human rights abuses, food security, ocean resources, solar energy, travel in Japan, wind energy, the causes of the economic crisis, English spelling reform, Lojban, eliminating nuclear weapons from the world, American politics, climate change, sea level rise, and so on. From this list, I could choose 1 or two and write a thesis statement that would work well for a longer essay. You should try to decide before you go into summer vacation mode! Please send me your idea, or write about it on your blog. Summer blogging will be counted as extra credit writing in the autumn.
Don't forget that if you don't have a computer, you can write messages to your blog using a cell phone! I think it's too hard to write with a phone keypad, but some people don't mind.
Next semester, we will start with the Essay Contest and 8 steps to writing an essay.
Have a good summer.
Good evening, Prof. Brinkman. :D
ReplyDeleteI'm reviewing 3 tests I did today now to know how hard I tried them. However, they're not so good results...!
Anyway, I was attracked by nice pictures of Sponge Bob and starfish, so I wrote a comment. I don't know this cartoon much but I guess that pink character in last one from the top of pictures is starfish, isn't it?
By the way, I hope I will blog to think what it is the best topic for me.
HAVE A NICE VACATION! :D
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ReplyDeleteThank you for teaching me writing, and I'll also do my best in next semester. I have a lot of things to do in summer vacation :)I'm really excited! so, I'll write my blog during the summer vacation.
ReplyDeletelike Kiomi said above, these pictures are…nice!
I was looking for some nice pictures of tropical fish to enlarge, (make color copies of) and put on the windows, but all I could find today were starfish and SpongeBob.
ReplyDeleteI wanted something that looks like summer, too.
The starfish character is named Patrick. He makes SpongeBob look smart, because Patrick is even stupider than SpongeBob.
What are you going to write about, I wonder...