What are my strengths as a writer? What do I need to continue to work on?
Class Presentations:
Alex and Allie on Informal Blog Writing
- first person/second person
- makes it conversational and personal
- don't overuse "you"
- tone
- be conversational
- avoid jargon and cliches
- what are you trying to say?
- traditional rules
- be consistent
- you can start sentence with conjunction (but, and)
- you can end sentence with preposition
- paraphrasing dialogue
- showing vs. tellingopinion
- opinion
- represent facts fairly and accurately
- put emotion and personal stories
- use bold/italics
- avoid caps
- one-liners
- parallel repetition
- train tracks that drive the reader
- visual organizational cues
- subheads
- indenting quotations
Garet on Grammar and Revising
- use commas
- separate elements in a series
- separate an introductory word or phrase
- separate independent clauses
- use semi-colon
- connection between independent clauses
- draws a little more emphasis
- makes more of an impact
- en dash
- emphasis
- Ellipsis (dot, dot, dot)
- e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4...
- that was awkward...
- avoid incomplete comparisons
- diction
- i.e. vs. i.g.
- i.e. "that is" or "in other words"
- i.g. "example given"
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