Farewell

Thanks for a great semester! You are ready to take off now, and I wish everyone the best of luck. Please feel free to continue to use the class resource pages for review and information: Writing Links Also, the SFU library's Student Learning Commons will continue to support you in your writing.
Enjoy the summer!
Sue

Critical Summaries - Ethical Man

I will continue to post information here but your comments are now optional. There is no homework but you should be revising your four entries for the Portfolio. Please bring these to class to do peer editing on Monday.
Also, just a reminder that your blog entries will be due for the last class. You don't need to add any more comments, but please edit the ones you have done and e-mail them to me on Wed. Aug.1st. In total, there should be fifteen entries.
Enjoy the weekend.

Applying to Context

Thanks again to our mini-lesson pre- senters. On Monday, July 16, our last three groups will present: Semicolon (Kirsten, Robert, Mike & Jotie), Homonyms (Kirsten & Jotie) and Syntax (Albert & Boris).
**Reminder: Please e-mail me your Second Diagnostic Essay by 9 pm Sunday, July 15. I will try to return them to you in class on Monday.
Blog question: After reading Chapter 11 "Strategic Reading" in our textbook, please choose an interesting idea in the chapter and discuss how it might help your writing.
Stay cool!

Second Diagnostic Essay

**Please note: there is no blog entry for today. Spend your time working on your Second Diagnostic Essay. Please bring it to class on Wednesday.
Thanks to the presenters of the mini-lessons today. On Wednesday, we will have groups do 1) Plurals (Frank, Luan & Jake), and 2) Style (Jared & Robert).

Writing Conclusions

Thanks to our groups who did today's mini-lessons. On Monday, July 9, our next two groups will teach the class about their topics: "Articles" ( Albert, Frank, Luan & Derek), and "Verb Tenses" (Kevin, Peter, Edward & Jake).
Please also prepare for Monday an outline on a topic of your choice on which you will write an essay during class. You should also bring your Diagnostic Feedback.
Blog question: Write a short conclusion about your favorite movie (or another movie). Pretend you have just written a long essay about why this is an important movie in the history of filmmaking. Now you are making some final points about the movie’s significance.
Enjoy the nice weather!

Writing Paragraphs

**Reminder: No class on Monday, July 2**
For Wednesday, July 4, please write the middle paragraph which would follow the introduction I wrote on the board today in class. The introduction is posted on our class website: Class Notes . You may use the information from the New York Times article handed out today in class but use your own words. Bring this paragraph to class on Wednesday.
Please research your topic for the mini-lessons and put the rules and sample sentences on your transparency. Two groups will teach the class on Wednesday: Group One (Kevin, Derek, Peter and Boris) on "Subject-Verb Agreement", and Group Two (Jared, Mike and Edward) on "Prepositions".
Blog question: Choose your favorite movie (or another movie) and write a paragraph as if you were a character in the movie. Have the character tell us what he/she wants and why. Be sure to use the character’s voice.

Writing Introductions

***Reminder: Due on Wed., June 27, is the final copy of "Am I an Active Learner?"
Today each person was assigned two mini-lesson topics. Please find out what the rule is for your topic and create 2-3 sentences showing examples of correct usage. You can take one sentence from your Diagnostic essay and show us how to correct it. Here is the link to our webpage that connects to other writing centres for information on the topics: FAL Writing Links . Do not copy information from these sites -- please explain the rules in your own words. Bring these to class on Wed.
Today we also wrote introductions from the key points in the middle of the "hydrogen car" essay. Please rewrite the introduction and e-mail to to Sue by Tuesday night.
Blog question: Thinking about introductions, tell the class about your favorite movie.