September 15, 2017
Today we started on the baseline essay we prepared for yesterday. I was ready to go because I had highlighted everything I was going to talk about and wrote my thesis before hand. I mean the article was interesting but I had to think a lot about what I was going to say which took up a lot of my time, which led to me writing less, which then in turn made my essay shorter. Otherwise the requirements were fair. I mean this all helps toward when we really have to write our own 20 page essays about the most boring thing in the world like 2 years from now when we all go to college. Or better yet when we get the first essay of this marking period that I’m going to have shave off hours of time just to try and make it perfect. I mean hey this is good practice if you wanna be a writer, producer whatever. I could go on about how this helps. So in conclusion we used are notes, and annotations, and any other helpful guidelines from the article to write the baseline essay for the whole period, after that the period was over.
-Seth Quinones
Hey Seth,
ReplyDeleteI love the bones of this post, but I'll encourage you to consider two things:
A) Your objective content about what WE did in class - obviously it's toughest with a baseline, but think about the information that a student would need to understand what we did in class. Remember that you should be able to look at 50% of your post and say "THIS is talking about our class activities that day."
B) Maybe put your extension in a separate paragraph. That way you can really elaborate on your analysis. Writers and producers CERTAINLY need the skills we use in our baseline, but be specific! How do they use them? Why? When/where? Keep pushing specificity!