Celebrations and Edits

Lot to celebrate in the honors class today.  Before submitting the papers we took some time to celebrate what you accomplished.

You celebrated your understanding of cohesive writing.

You celebrated your ability to look deeper at a piece of writing to uncover the hidden gems of insight.

You celebrated your ability to revise, revise and then revise some more.

You celebrated your peers and the roles they played in helping you improve your writing.

You celebrated your family members and the roles they played in improving your writing.

You celebrated your paragraph development.

You celebrated your titles.

You celebrated your cleverness.

You celebrated your sophisticated word choice.

You celebrated your original themes.

You celebrated the improvements you made as a writer.

But mostly, you celebrated that you were submitting your theme essays.

That's a lot of celebrating!  We have five days before Thanksgiving Break.  We'll fill those days with some of the instruction that has been overlooked so far this year before jumping back into our writing program December 1.

Cohesive writing due tomorrow.

Read those classics by December 1.

In the standard class you have been revising and revising and revising on your own and with your partner.  Today you received plenty of peer support that will help you along your revision trail.  The Group of Four editing you're doing can go a long way to helping you write a successful paper if you ask the right questions and offer the detailed insightful responses to help the writer achieve his or her best.

We did not get through everyone today so we will pick up where we left off tomorrow.  If you were helped today then be sure to go home and revise while the suggestions are fresh in your mind.

If you did not get help today, go home and revise your paper so that it can be as strong as possible. That way you will get the help on the important things instead of wasting time on little things you could improve on your own.

So...revise tonight and don't forget to read some novel too.

Until next time...