Tuesday 24 Oct. In class, we'll spend time reviewing and summarizing your postings in the dialogue exercise discussion . I'll be asking you, in small groups, to review and summarize some of the techniques you see others using to make abstractions concrete. We'll look at a summary of some of your description paragraphs and responses to them. Then, we'll review how to punctuate dialogue, and I'll ask you to try out a dialogue exercise over the weekend- again, addressing ways of making the abstract concrete.
Class is cancelled for today.
Follow this link to the Description exercise and make the postings it requires. Try to make the first posting around classtime on Thursday so others will know when messages are being posted. Writing the Familiar Essay, and be ready to discuss how abstractions can be grounded in the concrete. The Familiar Essay for Tuesday or Wednesday - Papers have been posted to the web on this page . Find a paper that resembles yours in some way, or that contrasts with yours in some way, and comment on the points of resemblence or contrasts, as appropriate.