Q Week 8 Objectives: By the end of Week 8, you will: • Learn about the "finishing touches" of an academic essay: introduction, conclusion, and title • Submit the final draft of your Summary & Response • Get started with the final writing projects of the quarter • Understand the central role that (substantial) revision plays in the larger writing process. • Revise your Personal Narrative DUE WEDNESDAY MAY 27 BY 11:59 PM Readings/Viewings • Review your classmates' comments on your Summary & Response rough draft. • Sample Academic Titles Actions • Sample Introductions Actions • Sample Conclusions Actions • My Panopto videos Sample Introductions Explained (Links to an external site.) and Sample Conclusions Explained (Links to an external site.) Assignments • Trimble Writing Exercise #6 (10 pts) Actions This exercise asks you to quote passages from your own Summary & Response Essay. Make sure to complete this exercise BEFORE you submit your essay, as you may have to make changes to your essay in order to do what the exercise requires! • Major Essay #2 (Summary & Response) (200 points) DUE SUNDAY MAY 31 BY 11:59 PM Readings/Viewings • Exit Portfolio Assignment Sheet Actions • Trimble, "Revising" and "Proofreading" (117-119) • Revision Notes Actions • Revision Questions (Links to an external site.) • Great Writers on the Art of Revision Assignments • Revising & Proofreading Quiz (5 pts) • Post to the Week 8 Discussion (25 points) Make one original post and reply to two classmates. Full instructions are posted in the discussion. Looking Ahead . . . Next week we will continue our work with the Synthesis of Two Texts essay and will learn how to build a body paragraph with two quotations in it. See you in Week 8... ENGL&101 – English Composition I (Online & Hybrid) Trimble Writing Exercise #7 This writing exercise has three parts. Use this form to complete all three sections and submit it to me using the drop in the Week 7 Module. This week's exercise asks you to quote passages from your Summary & Response essay. Part 1 After reading Trimble's section on punctuation, quote four sentences from your Summary & Response essay: one that uses a semicolon correctly, one that uses parentheses successfully, one that uses a colon successfully, and one that uses a dash (or dashes) successfully. Paste your sentences in this space: