Weekly Blog due Monday,
Oct. 24th by 11:00 am (Class Time!)
Task 1: Post a draft
of your Languages of Power and Resistance project
This is an "early" draft, so it can take many forms (e.g., a solid draft of the first page, individual paragraphs, a synthesis of your sources, etc.) Do make it coherent enough for us to be able to understand what you're up to and for you to revise it in class on Monday. (Length: about 400-500 words.)
This is an "early" draft, so it can take many forms (e.g., a solid draft of the first page, individual paragraphs, a synthesis of your sources, etc.) Do make it coherent enough for us to be able to understand what you're up to and for you to revise it in class on Monday. (Length: about 400-500 words.)
Task 2: Incorporate the Pattern(s)-of-the-Week
As you write or revise your early draft, ensure that you experiment with at least one of the patterns-of-the-week below. Please put your pattern-of-the-week sentence(s) in bold, followed by brackets that identify the pattern (example below). Please end (or begin) your blog by letting us know why you're experimenting with your chosen pattern(s). Include some type of commentary on this process: how well you thought you incorporated your pattern, what you're working on, what you're learning, and/or a question for clarification.
Patterns-of-the-Week
Pattern 1: A conjunctive adverb used to transition between two sentences.
EX: I want to take a nap. However, I have too much homework [the conjunctive adverb “however” points back to the sentence ahead of it to
help transition between ideas; here the conjunctive adverb also emphasizes the
last part of the sentence]
Pattern 2: A sentence with an
appositive to emphasize or clarify a noun or noun phrase. It should be
set off with commas, dashes, parentheses, or colons. EX: My
oldest son, a pitiful patient, is sick again with the Pullman
Plague [an appositive phrase to give a more detailed description of my son (note:
this is a sentence I’ve used in the past; he’s fine right now)].
Pattern 3: A participle phrase (the –ing form of a verb used as
an adjective) to describe the subject of the sentence (ideally a participle
that doesn’t dangle). EX inspired
by Justin: Gleaming with light,
the shell shone in the moonlight [a participle phrase to give a sense of action
to the otherwise static shell].
Response
No response this time.
We’ll give each other feedback in class on Monday.
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