The Response Essay Process

Portfolio 1 Skills & Process:

Week 2 -- College Composition

Writing & the Writing Process -- integrate ideas from

1. Your experience in writing the 20-minute in-class prompt
2. Your annotations of Lamont, "Bird by Bird" 
3. The Writing Skills Questionnaire
4. The Stephen King, Jerry Seinfeld, Animation video clips
5. Other

"Ten Habits of Successful Students" -- Brief Discussion of assigned reading.

Writing a Summary -- "Not so easy, not so difficult."

During Class:

• Read Chapter 9 in the handbook “Reading to Write” pp. 119-122.
• Annotating an article.  A good resource for annotation is here.
• Summarizing an article.  Read the handout “Writing a Summary.”
• grammar & usage issues related to writing a summary.
• begin writing your summary (if time allows)

Assignment for Monday:
--Write a summary of the "Losing is Good for You" article that was passed out in class. Be sure to annotate the article as discussed in the handbook before you write your summary. Also be sure to look up any terms you do not understand. Your summary should be about one paragraph or ½ page long. Bring your copy of the article (with annotations) and your typed summary on Monday.  A sample summary of a different article is here.
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“E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

--see this link for more quotes from Bird by Bird.