WEEKLY REQUIRED WORK

These are time sensitive. You do not receive credit if you write them after the deadline each week.

First, there's a blog entry (about 250 words) which will have you respond to a hopefully thought-provoking question. Each week, you must do the blog entry with enough time left in the week to be able to enter into dialogue online with your classmates. Write, reply, write more, reply more, and then write and reply more.

Second, there's a reading. There’s no blog entry associated with this. Just read.

Third, there's a written response to the reading. Your reading and writing on the blog must be completed by the SATURDAY (by midnight) of the week in which the reading falls. This entry should be a long paragraph. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESPOND TO OTHER STUDENTS' PART THREE EACH WEEK.

Sunday, January 26, 2014

WEEK FOUR WRITING ABOUT WHAT YOU READ...or, what I expect from you on our first big essay.

Just work on polishing your restaurant review. Here is how you do that:

1. As a descriptive essay, I want to see some strong description. Rather than telling me, show me. What that means is, do not just tell me something tasted good. Instead, explain the feeling of that particular bite on your tongue, the way you had to close your eyes to experience the full sensation of sweetness from a particular dessert, the smoky essence when you breathed in after a sip of an oak aged cabernet sauvignon, or the welled up sense of hatred you felt when the restaurant overcooked your asparagus. Use all senses! Touch, taste, feel, smell, sound...

2. Avoid simple mistakes. I use the term "simple" because I do not want to write "stupid." Woops, I guess it came out anyway. Remember, this is fun writing(I hope it was fun!), but it is a final draft you are turning in. I do not expect you to know and use properly every single comma rule, but I do expect you to fix simple errors as those errors signify a lack of careful editing.

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