Handout: Oldenburg and Brissett, "The Third Place" (an, argum/pers)
Note the handling of "the same" material for different audiences.

• Complete note cards for both the Oldenburg and Brissette essays (R13B/C). State the problem being made known. Make a list of ways in which the writers explain and demonstrate that the problem exists. Bring the cards to class with you on Day 23 Week 12.
  
  
• Bring, in addition, two questions on the Brissett-Oldenburg articles: (1) one question on writing and writing techniques, and (2) one question on substance. Bring the cards to class with you on Day 23 Week 12.
  
  

Lunsford and Connors' "Twenty Most Common Errors" continued:

11. unnecessary shift in pronoun
12. sentence fragment
13. wrong tense or verb form
14. lack or agreement between subject and verb
15. missing comma in a series
16. lack of agreement between pronoun and antecedent
17. unnecessary comma(s) with a restrictive element
18. fused sentence
    
19. misplaced or dangling modifier
20. its / it's confusion
    
    

• Checklists useful in your editing work include:
  • "The Twenty Most Common Errors" -- The New St. Martin's Handbook
  • "What Business People Think about Grammar and Usage" -- Maxine C. Hairston
  • "Standards for Grading in Composition 3160"
    
  
  

• Ch. 50 "Oral Presentations"
  • book text
  • sample writing
  • video
    
    

• OWL PowerPoint Presentations -- Purdue University
• Lecture Slides Set: Anishinabe Curing -- Tim Roufs
  
  • Cf., Paul Buffalo paper: "Concept of Power among Mississippi and Lake Superior Ojibwa"
• Prehistoric Cultures
  • Class Slides Set #01A -- Introduction
  • Class Slides Set #03B -- How to Study for Quizzes and Exams
  • Class Slides Set #01B -- Major Finds of the Past Quarter Century I

  • Class Slides Set #02 -- Major Finds of the Past Quarter Century II
    

• Take the "Mechanical and Processes Section of the Final Exam" (edited version)
  
  
• Other CD-ROM exercises
  1. Open CD-ROM The New St. Martin's Electronic Handbook
  2. Click on "exercises" in the lefthand column
  3. In the "Select a Chapter" box select Ch. 8 "Pronoun Case"
     1. Select items from the "Now Select a Section . . . ." dialogue box
     2. Click "OK" on the "You may now start the quiz!" dialogue box
     3. Note the "For help, see Xx" aids under the dialogue boxes
        
        
  4. Look at the following list of CD-ROM exercises and work on the ones that are not your strong points. If in doubt, pick those that correspond with the items that are listed in the memos that accompanied your papers when they were returned.
     
     
     1. Repeat Step C for Ch. 09 "Verbs"
     2. Repeat Step C for Ch. 10 "Subject-Verb Agreement"
     3. Repeat Step C for Ch. 11 "Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement"
     4. Repeat Step C for Ch. 12 "Adjectives, Adverbs"
     5. Repeat Step C for Ch. 13 "Clear Pronoun Reference"
     6. Repeat Step C for Ch. 14 "Shifts"
     7. Repeat Step C for Ch. 15 "Comma Splices, Fused Sentences"
     8. Repeat Step C for Ch. 16 "Sentence Fragments"
     9. Repeat Step C for Ch. 17 "Modifier Placement"
     10. Repeat Step C for Ch. 18 "Consistent and Complete Structures"
     11. Repeat Step C for Ch. 19 "Effective Sentences"
         1. Emphasizing main ideas
         2. Conciseness
     12. Repeat Step C for Ch. 20 "Coordinaation, Subordination"
     13. Repeat Step C for Ch. 21 "Parallelism"
     14. Repeat Step C for Ch. 24 "Spelling"
     15. Repeat Step C for Ch. 27 "Diction"
     16. Repeat Step C for Ch. 30 "Commas"
     17. Repeat Step C for Ch. 31 "Semicolons"
     18. Repeat Step C for Ch. 32 "End Punctuation"
         1. Periods
         2. Question marks
         3. Exclamation points
     19. Repeat Step C for Ch. 33 "Apostrophes"
     20. Repeat Step C for Ch. 34 "Quotation Marks"
     21. Repeat Step C for Ch. 35 "Other Punctuation Marks"
         1. Parentheses and brackets
         2. Dashes
         3. Colons
     22. Repeat Step C for Ch. 36 "Capitals"
     23. Repeat Step C for Ch. 37 "Abbreviations and Numbers"
     24. Repeat Step C for Ch. 38 "Italics"
     25. Repeat Step C for Ch. 39 "Hyphens"
     26. Repeat Step C for Ch. 53 "Nouns, Noun Phrases"
     27. Repeat Step C for Ch. 54 "Verbs, Verb Phrases"
     28. Repeat Step C for Ch. 55 "Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases"
         
         

• "Sources" can include notes on things like discussion of the topic with your professors and/or friends, write-ups from displays in art galleries and museums, notes from television programs like Nova and 60 Minutes, notes from programs on Public Radio. . . .
• Freewrite for Paper #4, your "Coffee and Conversation" talk, incorporating some of these materials. Freewrite at least two double-spaced pages.
• Bring this to the next class.