Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Low Stakes Reflection

LOW STAKES REFLECTION due on Monday, June 1 (must be completed on time)


Write 10-12 sentences (3-4 sentences on each of the 3 elements listed below) in the body of an email on

your improvement this semester (or desire for further improvement) in 3 elements of writing:

Thesis statement

Supporting the thesis with evidence from the literary text

Supporting the thesis with evidence from critics (secondary sources)

Use of comparison/contrast

Organizing body paragraphs

Using transitions between ideas or units of the paper

Avoiding repetition of ideas

Using topic sentences in body paragraphs

Avoiding word repetition

Using literary terms

Avoiding word waste

word choice

Subject/verb agreement

verb endings

use of irregular verbs

use of helping verbs

run-ons

fragments

sentence-structure errors

singular/plural

punctuation in general

12 comments:

  1. So this low stakes will be about ourselves not the poems?

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    1. Yes, this low stakes is not about essay 3. It's about your view of your writing during the whole course. (Two days later, the final low stakes will be tied to essay 3.)

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  2. No questions so far for the low stakes writing assignment professor.

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  3. Morning Professor.
    So, you want us to send it to you as a Word document or just like an email?

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  4. hi my question is about the third essay and not the assignment what exactly will our last essay be about

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    1. Take a look at the main post of "Essay 3: Poetry A," and it explains the whole thing fully.

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  5. Professor Fink,

    So this low stake writing, we have to write about our improvements in this class?

    Jenny Lin.

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    1. Yes, Jenny, it should be your improvements and it's optional to include one item you want to improve further.

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  6. i dont have any question on the low stakes assignment

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  7. Thanks professor I don’t have any questions so far about the assignment .
    Kaniya

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  8. Thanks professor I have fully understood what’s to come for monday.

    Darry Lopez

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