On-going Work
EG 09, REQUIRED RE-WRITING AND
CORRECTIONS
When you have complete your compositions, you are required to correct
them. That is the on-going task for the semester. Rewrites are due immediately
after work is returned to you. If you have no other “homework,” keep
reworking your essays to make them longer and better.
Re-writing your paper is probably the best way for you to improve your
skills as a writer. By fixing the paper, re-writing until it is clear, properly
structured, accurate and error-free, you will learn points you, personally, most
need to be better writer and you can take pride in your producing a truly
college-level if not indeed perfect paper!
You are required to:
1. Keep all corrected materials and drafts in a folder. Don’t throw anything away!
2. Make a list of every correction specifically noted by your instructor.
3. Learn how to correct each item that has been noted.
4. Make all the corrections to produce a new, finished copy of the paper.
Do these tasks before you are due to pass in your next paper. Unless you
correct your work, you will just go on making the same errors. By correcting
your work you will
certainly improve your writing!
Portfolio Reminder: If you wish to try to accelerate from EG 09 directly into EG
11, you will need to complete your work, error free, and also make the paper
longer than the minimum 400 words first assigned. Add to your paper when
revising it. Explain more, clarify, even try to say each major point you make a
second time, another way so the paper is at least 600 words (2 full typed pages)
when you are done.
NOTE: Perhaps you have never had an instructor
“line-edit” your work. Perhaps you have never had frank comments and
corrections handed back to you when you have passed in assignments. Recall the
rules we established from day one of our class:
1. Do no harm, and
2. Try to help each other.
That said, please be assured that comments I make are never
intended to offend, insult or in anyway make students feel bad. They may raise
issues that challenge your logic. They may try to wake you up to what is needed.
If you have a question, let alone a concern about what is
written on your paper, please come talk to me. I will consider your questions
and comments to me a compliment. You should trust that I want to teach you as I
trust that you want to learn!