Weekly Write Up 9/19/2017
By: Geo Abraham & Malik Louis
Reading:
Tuesday’s reading was CW: Chapter 4, Structuring Your Texts, pages 75-87. In summary, the chapter was talking about how the transitions and minor details don’t matter that much in the beginning… At least not as much as the structure. “You don’t put up your curtains before you’ve built the walls of the house” (75.) Also, you need to know your audience. Don’t just throw data and facts at them without making them interested. You need to consider a thesis. The thesis is “a main point you want to prove.” (76) Make arguments for the points which are the weakest, and the audience is against you, also towards the end of the reading the book the reading talks about time based and where it is important to add specific events or timelines then talks about context based ,and also creating transitions.
Thursday’s reading was CW: Chapter 9, Revising Your Texts, pages 225-239. It talked about 
how you should be able to revise your own writing before getting “outside feedback” from other people, to give them writing that is worth reading. First step is make a copy of your file, and then the next step is to review your copy with 
PACT. Then you need to imagine that you are the audience, and think like them. While thinking like the audience, make remarks on the paper to show what is missing or added by mistake. Then go through PACT again to find more flaws.
Class Discussion/Activities
on Tuesday in class we started off by doing our daily grade that asked us “where we were in 
the writing process of our essays and what could we do that would help us write better”. What we did in class on Tuesday was in groups of 3-4, reviewed our topics for our Essay 1 and our topic for the essay. Later in the day we started to work on our planning/rough draft.
On Thursday in class we had to bring in a complete rough draft of our essay so that we could peer review with a partner. The image you See above was the assignment we did in Thursday’s class. Everybody partnered up and asked the questions to their partner that you see above and read and review their essay and also give good and constructive feedback.