"Your job as a writer is making sentences," Several short sentences about writing, Klinkenborg.
"You're not writing. You're making reading," --Clark
1. Roll, take up assignments
2. Your writing. Your reaction, what you learned?
3. What makes good writing, bad writing? One by one--your critique?
4. What is a sentence?
5. The sentence, the essay--testable notes
6. Verb exercises
7. Changing the syllabus--what is first book you read? What remember about learning to read?
8. Lego writing
9. Quiz
10. Assignments--due Tuesday at 9:30
Find a printed sentence with strong action verb. One with weak verb. Copy, list source, bring to class Tuesday--why?
Example: "Reggaeton, the musical genre born in Puerto Rico, blares from the speakers." (Today's New York Times, by Simon Romero.
Why not "is loud"?
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