Class Thursday, September 10

In class today we did some more work on how to write summaries. We created a "rubric" - a standard list of features we could used to evaluate a summary. Our rubric evaluated summaries based on:

- whether they stated the focus of the piece they were summarizing;
- how well they were organized
- how well (and whether) they developed the focus;
- and the language choices the writer made.

You then worked in groups to assign grades to 4 sample summaries of "Freewriting." We talked about how grades have two functions. They need to tell the student how well s/he is doing; and they need to provide information about how the student can do better. When we discussed the grades your groups gave to the sample summaries - we spent some time thinking about what needed to be changed to make the summary better. The point of this work was to set you up to be able to evaluate YOUR summaries - and to know how to make them stronger. You did a good job on this exercise. Thanks.

In the computer lab, you learned how to organize your gmail so that your work for ENG1031 would be in a separate folder (under its own label so you can find your work easily) and you learned how to use track changes. You also made yourself a list of what you needed to work on to strengthen your summary - and then you got started on revising.

For Tuesday:
1. Revise your summaries and turn them in as LastName_Elbow_R

2. Read Donald Murray's "The Maker's Eye."

Have a good weekend and if you have any questions send me an email.