On Writing Gonzaga College High School writing teacher Rick Cannon Writing is a solitary late night early morning sort of thing Unless youre a literary genius a Shakespeare or a Crane its never a oneshot deal always revision revision revision over time Writing well frustrates and ID: 626121
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Writing WorkshopSlide2
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."Slide3
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.”Slide4
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.Slide5
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”Slide6
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 (1
st
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.Slide7
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.Slide8
MLA Heading
Last name pg. #
Your Name
My name
Class
Day Month Year
TitleSlide9
Works Cited Page
Last name pg. #
Works CitedSlide10
Commonly Used Works Cited
Books
Lastname
,
Firstname
. Title of Book. City of
Publication
:
Publisher
, Year of Publication.
Medium
of
Publication
.Slide11
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.Slide12
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.Slide13
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.Slide14
Commonly Used Works Cited
Article from Online Database
Langhamer
, Claire. “Love and Courtship in
Mid- Twentieth-Century
England.”
Historical
Journal
50.1 (2007): 173-96.
ProQuest
.
Web
. 27 May 2009.