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1.   J- how are you involved on campus? Do you have a lot of friends on campus? What is something you’re interested in?

Notes

1.      TAP- topic, audience purpose

2.      Topic is what its about

3.      Audience- who its for

4.      Purpose- why are you writing it

a.        Entertain

b.        Inform

c.        Persuade

d.        Describe

5.      Writing Process-

a.        Invent

i.        Think of ideas

b.        Organize

i.        Shape ideas

c.        Draft

i.        practice

d.        Revise

i.        Relook (fix draft)

e.        Edit

i.        Revise grammar, punctuation

f.          Publish

i.        perfect

6.      six traits of writing-

a.        Voice

i.        Personality

b.        Ideas

i.        They need to be interesting to others

c.        Conventions

i.        Rules to follow ex grammar

d.        Organization

i.        Best shape for reader

e.        Fluency

i.        Flow of the sentence

f.          Word choice

i.        Picking the best word

7.      First essay- Narrative Due date 09/14/17

a.        First person- point of view I, we

b.        True story

c.        Under a minute (main theme)

d.        Start in the middle of the story

e.        Length: ?

f.          Don’ts

a.     No deaths

b.    No children

c.     No questions in the beginning

d.    No words ending with ly

8.      Grammar mistake

a.        Pronoun- antecedent , agreement (PNA)

i.        Ex: I like people that are nice- people who are nice

b.        Tense shift- (TS)

i.        Ex: I like people who were nice- I like people who are nice

c.        Verb tense agreement (VTA)

i.        I likes people who is nice-

d.        Parallelism (PARA)

i.        Ex: I like people who are nice, friendly, and run.- active

e.        Comma splice (CS)

i.        I LIKE PEOPLE, I LIKE DOGS- I like people. I like dogs.

f.          Run on (RO)

i.        I like people I like dogs- period or comma

g.        Fragment (F)

h.        I like people who.-

9.      Sentence types

a.        Simple- I like dogs.

b.        Compound – add something to a simple sentence ex- I like dogs, I like cats.

c.        Complex- I like dogs since they are nice.

d.        Compound complex- puts a compound sentence together- ex I hate cats because I’m allergic to cats.