WritingII-Week10.pptVIP

Writing II: Week10 Generalization Administrative Matters- 3 Attendance Please put nametags on back of seat in front of you. Quiz-12 minutes Journals-7 Repeated Mistakes: - present perfect past until now/current effects Simple present facts, customs, etc... General categories Would/will modal of probability Wednsdays afternoon Peoples ; individuals “In a word” emphasis ; “at last” is not “finally” Review of Adding a Quote Pull samples from journals Pay attention to: -Is it already a quote? Say the persons name. -The newspaper name and date -The quote should support YOUR point Warm-Up-20 Today our writing warm up will be in 3 parts. 1 The title of your warm-up should be “Compare and Contrast”. Under that, spend 3 minutes thinking of criteria by which you could compare and contrast Western and Chinese education. Write down the criteria in your journal in 3 minutes. Warm-Up-20 2 Turn to Chapter 9, to page 108. Please write a paragraph comparing and contrasting the vacation allowances in days of various countries. Remember the structure of this kind of paragraph: -topic sentence including purpose The graph shows us the number of vacation days allowed in various countries. Following is a simple explanation. -general discussion of data -point out interesting conclusions -summary you can use the paragraph about Japanese respondents on p. 107 as a ? model Use 10 minutes. Warm-Up-20 Finally, I want to give us some time to go back through and do two things which many of you have not completed: Answer the questions I have posed to you in your journals Go through and find the kind of mistakes that you commonly make and write a list of them on a blank page in your journal Feel free to ask for help! Generalization Generalization is a method of drawing GENERAL conclusions based on evidence or examples. There are two kinds of generalizations: -those based on indisputable facts or extensive research The use of technology in the world is growing. -those based