Friday:
We continued with the introductions today and finished all but two.
After finishing the introductions, the instructor told the class that the most common problem was incomplete sentences, fragments, run-on sentences, and comma splices. She then told students three ways of correcting this problem:
--breaking the sentence into two
--using a BOYSFAN (coordinating conjunction) word (but, or, yet, so, for, and, nor) and a comma
--use of the semicolon
To do for next class:
--Read the first two chapters in Joy. Answer the questions on p. 4 and turn them in at the next class.
--Read and make notes on "Watcher at the Gate" for purposes of a class exercise or response paper. Try to use all three methods of correction on comma splices, etc., in the corrected paper.
--Do corrections on the intro. The introduction will be due on Wednesday.
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The instructor is ill, so there will be no class today. Please check this blog before coming Friday.
I notified all students for whom I had an e-mail address.
