Journal #4 The Art of Quoting

In ‘The Art of Quoting’ chapter in They Say, I Say, the authors outlined the important rules for seamlessly blending quotes into your piece of writing. Quotes are important because they serve to give the reader proof of the evidence you gathered and they show that the writer didn’t just make all the information up. … [Read more…]

Journal #2 Drafting

In my experience, drafting and revising writing projects took a long time to reach a quality final project. When given big writing projects in AP Literature, the class would meet in small peer editing groups where we would have printed out multiple copies of our work and hand them to our classmates for revision. They … [Read more…]

Consider the Lobster Journal #1

1) If David Foster Wallace was invited into the classroom, I would be intrigued to know why he choose lobsters as the topic of his essay. When was he first interested in the lobster industry? Why did he decide to write an essay on the topic? Does he have a connection to New England? Why … [Read more…]

Journal #7

In this chapter of They Say, I Say, the authors focused on the importance of starting your writing by describing what others are saying about the topic you are writing about. As mentioned previously in the book, writers need to have a clearly stated thesis in order to make the piece have meaning, and to … [Read more…]

Journal #3

The first chapter of They Say, I Say describes a way that the reader can enhance their writing using templates. With time honored, simple phrases and transitions, not only will your writing sound more put together, it will help to convey a more important purpose to the piece. The most important template the chapter defined … [Read more…]

Senses

The dollar store is a cavern of opportunity for broke college students and people who are either very cheap or given up on life. It can be a helpful resource for anybody who wants to find Jesus figurines and Halloween decorations in the same place. However, you have to pick and choose which items are … [Read more…]