EN100W - Fundamentals of English - Writing
This course incorporates the writing process approach, providing time and opportunities for writers in the student-instructor/student-student conferencing process.
EN100W FINAL COMPOSITION PRACTICE TOPICS AND DATES TO REMEMBER
1. Handout Final Topics - April 27, 2011
2. Final Composition Exam - May 4, 2011
3. SERT Final Exam and Final Self-Reflection Due - May 9, 2011
EN100W Essay Prompts
EN100W VOCABULARY BUILDING ONLINE ACTIVITY
Monday Essays & Questions - 3-21-11
Wednesdays Essays & Questions - March 16, 2011
Wednesday Essays & Questions - 3-16-11
The Birth of an Island
RACHEL CARSON
We usually think of birth in a biological sense, but Rachel Carson describes a different kind—a geological birth. It requires no coach, no midwife, no obstetrician. But unless you can live for thousands or even millions of years, you cannot witness the whole process. Nevertheless, it is a process, and it can be described in steps.
The birth of a volcanic island is an event marked by prolonged and violent travail: the forces of the earth striving to create, and all the forces of the sea opposing. The sea floor, where an island begins, is probably nowhere more than about fifty miles thick—a thick covering over the vast bulk of the earth. In it are deep cracks and fissures, the results of unequal cooling and shrinkage in past ages. Along such lines of weakness the molten lava from the earth’s interior presses up and finally bursts forth into the sea. But a submarine volcano is different from a terrestrial eruption, where lava, molten rocks, gases, and other ejecta are hurled into the air through an open crater. Here on the bottom of the ocean the volcano has resisting it all the weight of the ocean water above it. Despite the immense pressure of, it may be, two or three miles of sea water, the new volcanic cone builds upward toward the surface in flow after the flow of lava. Once within reach of the waves, its soft ash and tuff are violently attacked, and for a long period the potential island may remain a shoal, unable to emerge. But, eventually, in new eruptions, the cone is pushed up into the air and a rampart against the attacks of the waves is built of hardened lava.
Directions: Answer the following questions and e-mail them to me.
(1) What type of process analysis (informative or directive) is used here?
(2) To what type of audience (well informed, moderately informed, or poorly informed on the topic) does Carson direction this selection?
(3) What is the prevailing tone of this material (objective, humorous, reverent, argumentative, cautionary, playful, ironic, ridiculing)?
(4) Which sentence that shows at which point the setup material ends and the informative process begins.
(5) How many stages are there?
The Birth of an Island
RACHEL CARSON
We usually think of birth in a biological sense, but Rachel Carson describes a different kind—a geological birth. It requires no coach, no midwife, no obstetrician. But unless you can live for thousands or even millions of years, you cannot witness the whole process. Nevertheless, it is a process, and it can be described in steps.
The birth of a volcanic island is an event marked by prolonged and violent travail: the forces of the earth striving to create, and all the forces of the sea opposing. The sea floor, where an island begins, is probably nowhere more than about fifty miles thick—a thick covering over the vast bulk of the earth. In it are deep cracks and fissures, the results of unequal cooling and shrinkage in past ages. Along such lines of weakness the molten lava from the earth’s interior presses up and finally bursts forth into the sea. But a submarine volcano is different from a terrestrial eruption, where lava, molten rocks, gases, and other ejecta are hurled into the air through an open crater. Here on the bottom of the ocean the volcano has resisting it all the weight of the ocean water above it. Despite the immense pressure of, it may be, two or three miles of sea water, the new volcanic cone builds upward toward the surface in flow after the flow of lava. Once within reach of the waves, its soft ash and tuff are violently attacked, and for a long period the potential island may remain a shoal, unable to emerge. But, eventually, in new eruptions, the cone is pushed up into the air and a rampart against the attacks of the waves is built of hardened lava.
Directions: Answer the following questions and e-mail them to me.
(1) What type of process analysis (informative or directive) is used here?
(2) To what type of audience (well informed, moderately informed, or poorly informed on the topic) does Carson direction this selection?
(3) What is the prevailing tone of this material (objective, humorous, reverent, argumentative, cautionary, playful, ironic, ridiculing)?
(4) Which sentence that shows at which point the setup material ends and the informative process begins.
(5) How many stages are there?
GCC English Tutor Schedule
GCC English Tutor Schedule - TBA
AmeriCorps Tutors are available to provide services in the Student Center Bldg, Room 5201. See Elizabeth J. Duenas, Program Coordinator III.
AmeriCorps Tutors are available to provide services in the Student Center Bldg, Room 5201. See Elizabeth J. Duenas, Program Coordinator III.
Writing Process Worksheet
PROOFREADERS' MARKS
ESSAY WRITING
Expository (Informative) Essays:
Expository (Informative) Essays:
Expository Essay Topics: http://712educators.about.com/od/essaysparagraphspapers/a/gen_expository.htm
Expository Essay Topics: http://712educators.about.com/od/essaysparagraphspapers/a/gen_expository.htm
Descriptive Essays
Descriptive Essays: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/03/
Descriptive Essay Topics: http://www.educationalwriting.net/resource_center/Essays/Topics/Descriptive_Essay_Topic.htm
Descriptive Essay Topics: http://www.educationalwriting.net/resource_center/Essays/Topics/Descriptive_Essay_Topic.htm
Narrative Essays
Narrative Essays: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/04/
Narrative Essay Prompts: http://members.accessus.net/~bradley/narrativeprompts2.html
Narrative Essay Prompts: http://members.accessus.net/~bradley/narrativeprompts2.html
Argumentative (Persuasive) Essays
Argumentative (Persuasive) Essays: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/05/
Argumentative Essay Topics: http://www.ar.cc.mn.us/beste/english1121/research/topic_suggestions.htm
Argumentative Essay Topics: http://www.ar.cc.mn.us/beste/english1121/research/topic_suggestions.htm
COMMON MISTAKES IN WRITING
COMMON MISTAKES IN WRITING
Common Mistakes of English Grammar, Mechanics, and Punctuation
Common Mistakes and Tricky Choices
Common Mistakes of English Grammar, Mechanics, and Punctuation
Common Mistakes and Tricky Choices
RUN-ON SENTENCES
WRITING THE CONTROLLING IDEA/ORGANIZING AND DEVELOPING SUPPORT
WRITING THE CONTROLLING IDEA/ORGANIZING AND DEVELOPING SUPPORT
REVISING AND EDITING
MIDTERM AND FINAL SELF-REFLECTIONS
MIDTERM AND FINAL SELF-REFLECTIONS
Address the quality of your work in meeting the following:
1. Full and active attendance
2. Preparation and participation
3. Completion of course requirements
4. Growth in understanding of course content
Given your assessment of your work, what grade do you believe you deserve for this course?
Address the quality of your work in meeting the following:
1. Full and active attendance
2. Preparation and participation
3. Completion of course requirements
4. Growth in understanding of course content
Given your assessment of your work, what grade do you believe you deserve for this course?