Category: English
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Issue Exploration: Human Creativity – musings and questions
So, my first notebook piece (that I assigned myself) is late. As the professor, I have given myself an extension, however, I will have to dock some points off of myself because of this gross disregard for my own rules. 🙂 I have decided to do 5f, and here is the prompt: 5f. Collect several images…
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English 2010 Notebooks
An introduction to a writing assignment that I will complete along with my students this semester.
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Levels of Edits
Though there may be more levels of edits (depending on the type of work that you are creating) I am going to focus on 4 levels for these articles. As a minimum, your writing should go through the following: Big Picture Edit: developmental, structural, or substantive editing Paragraph Level Edit: stylistic or line editing Sentence-Level…
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Editing: Polishing the Diamond in the Rough
Last Thursday, it was my privilege to address the Utah Valley Writers on editing. The title of my presentation was Editing: Polishing the Diamond in the Rough. (Just a side note, if you would like me to address your school, class, writing group, or conference, please don’t hesitate to contact me). I promised the attendees (and…
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Presentation on Editing – 3/12/15
I will be doing a presentation on editing for Utah Valley Writers this Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 7:00 pm (there will be a critique of writing just before that at 6pm). The meeting will be at the Orem Public Library (58 North State Street // Phone: 801.229.70500) in the Media Room (downstairs). I was…
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He’s nothing but an Albatross: Using the concept of an inside joke to understand allusion in English literature
My daughter just tried out for her school’s third and fourth grade musical. She decided to sing Forget About the Boy from Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002), you can hear a sample here (thank you to actorguy 2006 for posting this youtube video of Sutton Foster performing Forget About The Boy from the 2002 Tony Awards) – (It’s…
Working on it! 