ENC 1101-B3 & B4: Writing for Discovery

I just put up a Blog Checkout Sheet link in the course calendar for this week. Since I won't look at your work before the weekend anyway, I also changed the due date for your Final Portfolio to 5pm on Friday.

By now, I'm sure that everyone knows that the revision assignments for the Exploratory drafts are not optional. You should know that you will not be permitted to revise further a sequence of Exploratory drafts for your Portfolio Draft unless you have first properly completed the revision assignment.

I've had to cancel class today. No meeting for Thursday, November 13. Instead, you should respond to your group members' drafts online.

Later today, I'll post the revision assignment for next Tuesday.

As discussed in class yesterday, are next drafting assignment will be a short story. The only additional requirement for the draft, other than the normal length requirement, is that it is to be written in 3rd person.

Note that the draft is due on Thursday next week as Tuesday is a holiday.

Shortly after section B4's class meeting yesterday, I was able to discern that one of the sticks of RAM in the server had gone bad. It's been pulled and the server seems to be running fine now, although a hair slower because I haven't replaced the RAM yet.

So any other access problems you might be having to this site are courtesy of the FSU network

Your revision assignment for Exploratory C draft 1 is to write another essay for draft 2 which argues well the opposite position from the one you took in draft 1.

If you are not really familiar with the opposite view point, you might want to do some quick research and find a few sources.

1) It was a dark and stormy night.
2) From the edge of the rail, the fall looked at least 20 stories.
3) Jane whipped her hand around as fast as she could, striking him sharply across his left cheek.

Note that a minor correction was made to yesterday's and Thursday's assignment. There is no draft due until Thursday

I'm about half way through with your grades and will be giving them out on Thursday at the end of class. Meanwhile, I've discovered that many of you need to review the section on the site on Posting Comments.

Note that for the second half of the semester, you'll be working with new group members. Look to the Groups block at the bottom of the right hand side to find your new group.

If anyone finds that a link doesn't work in that block, please let me know.

The course calendar for Week 8 has been updated. It now provides a link to the Blog Checkout Sheet.

O boy I do not know what to say about the Bucs Monday night game. We blew it and that is all I want to talk about it. But we will still win the Super Bowl.

Now on to the Noles, last week they had a bye week so they have had 2 weeks to prepare for the game that will probably decide who will be in the national championship game.

“Asking the big question first is a practical approach to revising (Ede pg 294),” is the only way to work for me. I believe it’s in most people’s interest, at least mine, to go from general to detail. It is way to overwhelming to begin with detail. When considering detail you must be careful because some editing decisions may seem minor, and that can affect your entire piece of writing. The guidelines for evaluating focus, content and organization have truly guided me when focusing on my exploratory B draft.