In class you practiced writing descriptions, and we reviewed how commas are used (Chapter 35 in Evergreen).
Due Next Class: Final comparison-contrast paragraph along with worksheet and draft(s) and Review 7 (will not be collected) on pages 458-59 in Evergreen (due Feb. 26 for sections 006 and 004 and due Feb. 27 for section 003)
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
Saturday, February 17, 2007
ENG 090-003 Day 10
We decided to wait and do peer reviews on the comparison-contrast paragraphs next Tuesday. The final versions (along with all preliminary work and drafts) are due on Thursday.
After spending a few minutes talking about RSS feeds, tags, and social bookmarking, we went over active- and passive-voice sentences and sentences beginning with "there are" and similar phrases. We also looked at some commonly confused words:
After spending a few minutes talking about RSS feeds, tags, and social bookmarking, we went over active- and passive-voice sentences and sentences beginning with "there are" and similar phrases. We also looked at some commonly confused words:
- accept/except
- affect/effect
- its/it’s
- knew/new
- through/threw
- their/there/they’re
- then/than
- weather/whether
- who/whom
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