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Fall 2014 - MW Teams
Expository Essay Rubric
Expository Essay Rubric
Writing Rubric
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Fall 2014 - MW Teams
Expository Essay Rubric
I learned many new things today. The writing process: stage one. I learned about the 4 different strategies. Free write, brainstorming clustering and gathering info. I liked the freewriting exercise because there was no wrong or right answer. You just keep writing. For brainstorming the big six questions on pg.8 really helped me. Clustering I learned to make a double bubble map. It’s more for the visual learners which I am. Lastly gathering info was more of a refresher of the last lesson. Underlining, annotations, and taking notes.
ReplyDeleteyeah im with you i learned about the 4 different strategies and i intend on improving my writing skills this Semester.
DeleteI also now enjoy free writing now that I see that you can just take an idea and run from there. I enjoyed today’s activity because I find what I wrote about very interesting. I also benefit from visual learning.
DeleteI learned so many things too. Knowing those strategies will definitely help us to write essays.
DeleteI also learned new things on that day. I really agree with what you thought about the freewriting exercise.
Deletetoday we headed over to the writing center and registered for my reading lab. in addition we participated in the annotating and underlining. It was fun.
ReplyDeleteYeah today was a pretty intresting class today. We shared our thoughts and its related to many of our classmates.
DeleteI liked the lesson. I had to share my answer in the class. I hope I did not do anything wrong.
DeleteI learned alot of new things today like the writing process. i didnt really use a process to write i just kind of wrote!! but yea i learned about the 4 different strategies. i love free writing because it gives me a way to express myself.
ReplyDeleteI like free writing too! It's like you can really just write and not have to worry if you made any mistakes (for now)!
Deletei really liked today's lesson more that the other days, because i really like free writing and i get to write more and express my self. I learned about 4 different strategies. The only thing i don't understand is what do we do or where do we go on moodle when we have online classes. Overall today's lesson was steady.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this week’s class as well. I never thought that I was ever any good at writing. these exercises help show me that I can write and even enjoy free writing and the brainstorming, listing, and the six big questions can help you form a great essay.
DeleteI agree with the moodle situation... I don't really understand how this whole moodle thing will work.
Deletei have a hard time understanding the online moodle session as well.
DeleteI like free writing too. It helps me get a prospective of my essay. But, it is kind of hard to free-write in English. I need to get used to write things in English.
DeleteI really enjoy free writing too. It gives you a way to express the way you feel, rather than doing a research paper you can't.
DeleteThe lesson was very helpful. By using the strategies, I will improve my writing skills.
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DeleteWe have learned stage one of the writing process. We have discovered that there four strategies that help with the writing process. Free write, which is writing anything and everything that pops into your head. The importance of just to keep writing weather it be meaningless words or even words or even words at all just to keep writing. Brainstorming is the second strategy that we went over today. The Second Activity that we did was the big six questions and the listing. I found this activity fun because I wrote about my favorite TV show that the season premier was last week.
ReplyDeleteYep. I'll be using this technique to write out essays better. I don't think it'll compliment any time windows though.
DeleteI thought the freewriting activity was also fun. What you shared was also interesting because my brother watches Dr. Who, but I don't. Although, now I will maybe consider watching it.
DeleteI felt the same way about that activity too. Writing the first thing that pops into your mind just to get the ideas flowing was not only helpful but fun at the same time. Thanks to your free write I think Im going to start watching that series.
Deletei think it will improve my writing skills knowing these new steps. looking forward to more free writing.
Deleteyea i like the free writing activity its fun because you can express yourself through writing and write down everything that's on your mind.
DeleteToday, like most day was very interesting. It was interesting because every time I walk into class, there’s always something new to learn. Each day in class I gain more ideas on what to write about. Come time to our final essay, I will have a very thorough understanding with the writing process.
ReplyDeleteI like that about this class we are very fortunate to learn something every class.
DeleteThere are so many things for me to learn too. Everyday is interesting and hard as well.
DeleteToday in class I learned about free writing and different ways of drafting. Free writing being about just jotting down what comes to mind without editing or making major changes. By just simply express your thoughts. Different ways of drafting was brainstorming, listing, and the big six questions. Learned that with these different ways I can find a new and more effective way of writing down essays, summaries, or reflections.
ReplyDeleteThis class period was a good refresher on the different ways to get your ideas out on paper aka Brainstorming. We didn’t learn about the clustering yet but I looked at it and I think it’s a more fun way to brainstorm your ideas. I also liked the freewriting activity. It was a fun way to just write down the way you view certain topics and it is interesting to hear what everyone else has to say. The Big Six Questions was also another very easy way to look at the main topics of your paper.
ReplyDeleteFree writing seems like a good way to start a short story or novel. I'll have to use it more often.
DeleteThe six questions are very helpful and its actually not the first I have heard about that method of brainstorming. Although it was a good refresher.
DeleteI think clustering won't be so bad, but we do probably need to review it. It would also be helpful when we would need to write an essay.
DeleteGood Afternoon folks, to carry on with my free-writing assignment I am typing out this post without looking at the screen. I should've made my suvjext about typing skills. If I make any mistakes I'll just leave it here. Just trying to make a point. Or at least I think I'm making a point. My neck hurts.....
ReplyDeleteThis made me laugh but don't worry I got your point!
DeleteLaught out Loud!
DeleteLOL youre pretty good at typing without looking at your screen. Two thumbs up :)
DeleteYou are funny and the way you read is cool. You sound like some type of announcer or storyteller.
DeleteIn today's activity, we went over stage one of writing. It consisted freewriting and brainstorming. I feel that the freewriting activity was a good exercise in writing. It was really helpful. I also liked that some of us shared what we wrote. Sharing can also help us be comfortable when speaking to a crowd.
ReplyDeleteEhh...... still need to work building up the courage to share something that I'm not sure about, but it should help me out in working out that something into a thing that I can know.
DeleteI really liked the freewriting portion of class. It makes me feel like what im writing is right, but i dont like to share my thoughts out loud. Laught out loud!!!
DeleteKristina, I'm with Hill on that. I hate reading out loud, but like you said it does help us get comfortable with the class.
Deletei agree that the free writing activity was a good exercise in writing. yea sharing can really help us with our speaking skills.
DeleteIt has been really helpful for me today. We have discussed about strategies such as free writing, brainstorming, clustering, and gathering information. I think that these strategies are important when we write essays. Get a prospect of my essay in the free writing process and think about what I have gotten in the first process. Then, gather information to support and compose and support my essay. That is how I have understood about the strategies that we discussed today. Please correct me if I am misunderstanding. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteYou're spot on. Free writing will definitely help out anyone who's new at writing.
Deletei agree. i might start enjoying writing knowing i found a way to write, that i understand.
Deleteyea. i think the strategies that were taught to us in class will help us through our writing.
DeleteI agree with him. Maybe because I am his twin brother and we think the same way about almost everything. Anyway I try not to ask questions when you are working on something.
DeleteIt was a great refresher lesson on the first step of the writing process. When I begin writing a paper I always find myself blankly staring at my computer screen for hours at a time. I know I'm not the only one with this writers block struggle either so learning even more ways to brain storm on different topics both given and selected is really helpful. Hopefully with this knowledge the writing process would come a lot easier to everyone too.
ReplyDeleteThis was a great lesson to get me out of the writer’s block. As you said staring at the blank computer screen is what I struggle with and just putting the words down. These four strategies help.
DeleteIn today’s class I’ve learned about freewriting, brainstorming, the big six questions, and listing. I’ve always liked the idea of freewriting. I can jot down exactly what comes to mind without editing. I also learned that the two basic forms for brainstorming are asking and answering questions and listing which can be really helpful when doing an essay.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Momi I love freewriting!!!!
Deletefeels good to write whats on our head and it doesn't count against you. feels so free.
DeleteFree writing is fun and easy to do. We can express our thoughts through writing without any error. Hopefully we can do do more in the future.
DeleteIn today’s class I thought the most important thing that we went over today was the free writing exercises we did. The Free Writing exercise helped us to write down what was on our minds based on a certain topic. The gathering of information from our free writing helped because it allowed us to look more into the main details of what we wrote and it will help us with extending what we wrote for future free writing exercises.
ReplyDeleteWhat I have learned today was very helpful for me. We talked about stage one strategies in the class. Now, I know how to do freewriting easily. The lesson was understandable. I could finish exercises that we had in the class. Sorry for making you guys feel unpleasant by my terrible reading.
ReplyDeleteToday was helpful for me too; free writing is easier that I thought. Keep up the reading you are doing great!
DeleteIt was helpful for me as well. Free writing is the easy part. Brainstorming is a tough one though. I understood you. Your readings are improving from what I can tell!
DeleteAs your brother, giving you a comment makes me feel weird. We have to help each other in that class. But, don't ask me a question when I am writing or doing my work. I need to concentrate. I will try not to ask you any question when you are working on something.
DeleteIt was helpful for me too. Free writing is getting easy and becoming fun. For the most part I understood you on your reading.
DeleteToday’s activates where really helpful. First we learned some stages of writing a paragraph. It was really interesting because I never learned how to do any of these stages before. Then we learned freewriting, I really enjoyed that topic because I didn’t really have to think about what I was writing all I had to do was write what I had in my head on paper.
ReplyDeleteIt's such a relief for me doing the free writing process because like you said you don't really have to think so much on what your going to write. Instead you just get to let your ideas flow onto the paper whether the information is beneficial to your paper or not.
DeleteFreewriting was a good exercise of writing because we can get all our ideas down on paper and then fix it properly after we have got an idea of what we are going to write.
DeleteToday we learned about the first stage of the writing process; focusing more on freewriting and brainstorming. Personally, I liked freewriting more than brainstorming. I prefer just letting my ideas flow rather than listing or asking questions. However, if I ever get stuck I think I would just answer the "Big Six Questions." For some reason, when I try listing ideas, it just worsens my writing block. This lesson was helpful to me because I find that the hardest part of writing an essay is figuring out what to write about. The second hardest part would be the conclusion. Hopefully we will learn some strategies that would help.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, I feel more comfortable with free writing as supposed to listing down ideas and answering questions. Although eventually your going to have to narrow down your ideas it just makes it easier.
DeleteI totally agree with you as well. I like how I can jot down what I feel and want instead of editing my paper or having it proof read.
DeleteToday we learned on how to free write and gather information. As we free wrote we discussed what was on our minds, how we felt or just let the words flow on the paper. As well as brainstorming six questions to help talk about the main topic. It was fun and interesting to do and see what others had wrote.
ReplyDeleteThis lesson had a lot of improvising today. I had to write a free write in one exercise in under five minutes. I chose the topic, ' most important event of my youth.' I wrote about my twin puppies I had adopted when I was six years old. They taught me the responsibilities of having a pet and made me experience my first loss. It was a tough exercise but I enjoyed it.
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