Conferences
We’ll have 15 minutes to talk together. This will be your main response to your work before you submit a revision for a letter grade. So you’ll want to make good use of this time.
Bring an annotated copy of the draft you want to develop an revise. By annotated, I mean you should mark, in ink and/or highlighter), where you plan to:
- Add text (be specific as you can about where and what)
- Cut text (strike through or cross out sections)
- Move passages
- Rework passages
Please also jot down any questions you may have for me. If you want to actually begin to revise your piece, that’s fine—just mark your new version in a way that shows the changes you’ve made to it. And, if you’re unsure about what piece you want to revise, and you want to annotate two of them, that’s fine, too—although we’ll need to talk that much more efficiently and quickly.
X3: Articulating Your Perspective on a Text
The question I want to ask of each of these three excerpts is: Where does this language come from? I mean that in a very straightforward way: From Push? From the X3 author? From somewhere else? (Ideally, there should be a blend of all three sources.)
Of Interest
Steven Pinker, “A Linguist’s Guide to Quid Pro Quo“, New York Times, 10/07
To Do
- Mon, 10/14, or Wed, 10/16: Come to my office with an annotated version of the piece you are working on. we’ll have 15 minutes to talk about it.
- Fri, 10/18, class: Come ready to spend most of the 50-minutes working on your first graded essay, which will be due in class on Monday, 10/21.
E110: Seminar in Composition 