Lesson Materials: 1. PowerPoint Presentation
Additional Resources for Review: 1. Videos on Sentence Structure Types (watch as many videos in his playlist as you’d like); 2. Formatting Dialogue in a Narrative;
Lesson Objectives: 1.Understand how to conduct peer review for local sentence-level and lexical issues; 2. Reflect on this stage of the writing process
Connection to Major Paper/Project: Having completed a second draft at this stage in the writing process, revising for content, organization, and rhetorical awareness, you will now begin work on grammatical, vocabulary, and conventions related to the narrative genre. You will be asked to apply strategies you learn in this lesson’s activities to the current draft of your major assignment.
Connection to Course Goals: We will practice the notion that writing is a process. The imitation exercise in the PPT is designed to teach you how to, at this stage of the writing process, write detailed sentences in the narrative genre, helping you develop an awareness of the conventions of writing in the narrative style to tell a story, describe an event or phenomenon.
Activities:
- Common Sentence Structures: Follow this activity’s instructions described in the above PPT. Once you identify the three sentence types, you will be asked to share your highlighted sentences with the class. We will discuss the sentence features, how they fit each sentence type, and how the various speech parts that you should have colored as indicated in the PPT contribute to constructing each sentence.
- Sentence Imitation Exercise: The professor will explain what is sentence imitation, what is its purpose, and go over the model. You will then be asked practice within your own writing with the model examples provided. You will then be asked to share your model and revised sentences with the class.
- Corpus of Contemporary American English: Pull up the COCA corpus. Use the corpus to learn whether a word is appropriate for the narrative genre or not. Search for “I” for example. Guess which one(s) among words like “tell”, “say”, and “state” are more appropriate for a narrative essay. Develop genre awareness by understanding how some language is unique to certain discourse communities.
- Punctuation Overview: Go over the resources for proper punctuation. Make a note of these as you gear up for peer editing.
- Narrative Draft Review Handout: Go over this draft review handout, and then provide feedback in the form of comments and inline edits to a partner within your team.
- Revision: Address the feedback that was given to you during peer review. Make sure that there are no comments left in the Google Doc, unless you reply to them to indicate that you need more time to process them.