LAB NINE-B

Introduction

2. Start your email in a third browser
    
3. Please save synthesis_yourlastname in the shared folder, if you haven't done so already

Here is a survey of some of the material covered by our writing reference text.  To get an accurate view of what you do and do not know -- do this without looking at the book.

1. Read all the steps to get an overview before you click on the link below
    
2. In Word, start a new document and Save As errors_yourlastname on your flashdrive or on the desktop
    
3. In your browser, open the link to Common Errors and copy the contents into your Word document
    
4. Don’t bother cleaning up the formatting, and add your revised sentences directly into the document without Track Changes (retype your version).
    
5. After you have corrected the sentences and identified the kind of error, open the Common Errors Key and compare your results.  If any of yours are different, add a comment in a different color in your Word document.  Notice the description of any error you missed.  You will want to look up the longer treatment of that error in Lunsford so you won't have trouble with it again!
    
   • don't change any of your original answers (you are not being graded on correctness here -- but on participation)
      
   • NOTE:  your edition of Lunsford has a different set of errors than the ones listed here, using a different set of criteria.  I find the older treatment more useful, so I include that here.  You can click here for complete explanations from the older Lunsford text.
      
6. Save your answers, close the document, and send it as an email attachment to me with errors as the Subject Line

3. Give one last feedback on Paper Four: Synthesis

2. Open a classmate's paper
    
   1. In Word, open the Paper Four in the shared folder written by the student whose name you have selected
       
   2. IMPORTANT: Begin by saving the document on your flashdrive or in your personal folder with your own name added at the end of the filename (synthesis_writerlastname_yourlastname)

2. Write a response at the bottom of the paper, addressed directly to the writer. Point out the places in the paper that you think are strong, either in the content of what is being said, or how it is said, or both. Point out the places where the paper could be more effective. Raise unanswered questions, and suggestions on how to deal with them.  What can be done with the paper that would be a significant, useful change for the final rewrite?
    
3. Close the document that has your own feedback and copy it to the English shared directory using My Computer
    
4. When you find that your own Paper Four has had feedback added, open it and check it using Tools / Track Changes / "Final Showing Markup" (select this in the box at the upper left). If you don’t see any comments at all, confirm that "Final Showing Markup" is selected.

4. Work on your rewrites for the final

Continue with the following only if you have time remaining in this lab. You don't need to complete this now -- the rewrites aren't due until the time of the final, and you'll have time in the next lab as well.

All four of your papers should be reworked for the final grading.  Use the feedback from the instructor and other students.  In addition to improving the style throughout, make at least one significant change to each paper beyond the feedback you have received -- additional material or removal of weak parts or a change of approach -- still within the expected word length.  Please make sure that your final version is done with Track Changes turned off, creating a clean, final copy with only your own chosen words.

A change that is significant would be more than revising sentences according to the feedback you have received (though that is important to do as well). It would rework an approach to an idea, or add material that is integrated with the rest of the paper. I can't give you examples because each one is unique (an example would be hard to point out effectively -- you'd need the whole original and the whole rewrite, and a lot of time to compare). Follow your own sense of what is significant. Ask yourself -- does your change make a difference to the quality of the paper? Whether or not you can identify significance is part of what is being evaluated.

Each paper should end with "_final" (e.g. reflection_yourlastname_final).  Send each of the four in a separate email to me by the time of the scheduled final, with the Subject Lines: 308 final reflection, 308 final description, 308 final persuasion, and 308 final synthesis.  Describe the changes in the body of another email (not as an attachment) -- and say why you think they are improvements.  In the body of another email (not as an attachment), describe the changes you have made and why you think they are an improvement.  Use 308 final summary as the Subject Line.

My feedback for your reflection paper and your persuasion paper has been added to the shared folder (for feedback from other students, look in Student-Work_Previous) for your convenience in rewriting now.  The original feedback was sent out by email during the quarter.

Begin now with my feedback for your reflection paper, or, if you have already used that feedback, work with my feedback for your persuasion paper.  Now is a good time to ask about any particular suggestions that have been made.