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Writing Workshop

Writing Workshop. On Writing.

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Writing Workshop

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  1. Writing Workshop

  2. On Writing • Gonzaga College High School writing teacher, Rick Cannon: "Writing is a solitary, late night, early morning sort of thing. Unless you're a literary genius - a Shakespeare or a Crane - it's never a one-shot deal, always revision, revision, revision, over time. Writing well frustrates and exhausts, and one soon begins to think he'd rather scrape the inside of his skull with a spoon."

  3. On Writing Continued WRITE TO EXPRESS, NOT TO IMPRESS • “A great many people do write just to impress. And because of that they write badly. They use language as a weapon. Big, multi-syllabic, Latinate words are thrown around like brickbats in the professional world. They are meant to impress, to intimidate, to demonstrate vocabulary, to justify salary by making the simple seem complex and the complex, impossible.”

  4. Let’s Prove This Guy Wrong • Cannon also says, “he couldn’t [teach writing this way] with five large classes a day, as some public high school teachers have.” DON’T LISTEN TO HIM. YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO TO A PRIVATE SCHOOL. WITH HARD WORK, YOU CAN BE JUST AS GOOD. YOU CAN BE BETTER.

  5. Cosmetics • THIS = a demonstrative adjective. A noun must follow it. • A literary work is always in the present tense. What the father does on 245 he is always doing on 245. DON’T: “When the father said…” DO: “When the father states…” • The Road or The Road. Longer works are not in quotation marks. • Use strong, lean verbs. DON’T: “the son is wanting” DO: “the son wants”

  6. Content 1. THESIS STATEMENT Should make a claim Should let the reader know how you will prove the claim (3 points usually) 2. TOPIC SENTENCES (1st sentence of each paragraph) Should make a claim Should attach to thesis statement 3. ANALYSIS Should have AT LEAST one quote per claim Should never have a quote that is longer than analysis Should not summarize more than one sentence or half- sentence after the quote Should attach immediately back to THESIS and TOPIC SENTENCE: What are you proving? How does this quote prove it? Refer back to the specific language of the quote.

  7. Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism • If you are using the EXACT LANGUAGE of the text from which you are getting your information, you need to put it in quotation marks and cite it. If you do not, it is plagiarism. • If you take the INFORMATION from the text with which you are working, but put it in your own words, you DO NOT need to quote, but you need to cite. NOTE: A dead giveaway that you do not understand the article or book is simply repeating what is says out of context. You are not teaching your reader or using skills of paraphrasing and quoting to get information across.

  8. MLA Heading Last name pg. # Your Name My name Class Day Month Year Title

  9. Works Cited Page Last name pg. # Works Cited

  10. Commonly Used Works Cited Books Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.

  11. Commonly Used Works Cited Entire Website Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.

  12. Commonly Used Works Cited Article from Website Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. A List Apart Mag., 16 Aug. 2002. Web. 4 May 2009.

  13. Commonly Used Works Cited Article from Web Scholarly Journal Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention." Emerging Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000): 595-600. Web. 8 Feb. 2009.

  14. Commonly Used Works Cited Article from Online Database Langhamer, Claire. “Love and Courtship in Mid- Twentieth-Century England.” Historical Journal50.1 (2007): 173-96. ProQuest. Web. 27 May 2009.

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