These were the items that were to appear in your Memoir rough draft. Reread your draft to be sure that you included all of these. For each, briefly explain where and what it is in your essay.
Here is a brief checklist to use after you have written your memoir.
A. What is your point? What lesson did you try to teach?
B. What was the conflict? (You need one!)
C. Did you tell the story from your point of view? (1st person)
D. Did you tell where and when the story took place?
E. Did you tell the story in chronological order?
F. What did you do to capture the attention of the reader in your opening paragraph? Look back at the sample essays for ideas.
Next, be sure to run spell check. Remembher that some words can be spelled correctly, but they can still be incorrect. Example: there/their/they're
There = a place
Their= possessive pronoun
They're = they are
Be sure to select the correct homophone. (Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings.)
Now, work on your style.
1. Number your sentences. Make a chart like this one, or copy/paste and fill in this chart. You might need to add numbers if your memoir is long.
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Add more lines as needed.
3. Now look at the first three words of the sentences. Are they all the same? If so, you will need to revise some of your sentences.
Post the following:
1. Verification that you ran spell check and tell what, if anything, that you found.
1. Your numbered draft.
2. Your completed chart.
3. A brief paragraph explaining what you need to do to revise your memoir.
Points: 40
Week #9 Assignment #2
Revise your memoir and post the final copy.
100 points
Week #9 Assignment #3 Homophones
It is easy to confuse homophones when writing. After all, the words sound the same when speaking. However, when writing, the words are very different. The following list contains many of the homophones that are commonly confused in writing. There are also a few grammar demons such as less/fewer.
For each, write the definition of each or explain when to use each. Then, prove that you know what you said by correctly using one of the pair in a sentence.
Example:
Use "between" when comparing two items. Use "among" when comparing three or more items.
Sentence: When I went to the store, it was difficult to select the perfect pumpkin from among the many beauties in the box.
- Fewer/less
- Number/amount
- Between/among
- Each other/ one another
- all ready/already
- their/there/they're
- hear/hear
- affect/effect
- compare to/ compare with
- farther/ further
- infer/imply
- passed/past
- if/weather
- maybe/may be
- each other/one another
- it's/ its
- than/then
- Maybe/may be
- affect/effect
- peace/piece
- vain/vane/vein
- who/which/that
- whose/who's
- your/you're/yore
- to/too/two
- ware/wear/where
Week #9 Assignment #4 - Read and Respond
"American Space, Chinese Place" by Yi-Fu Tuan is a sample essay of comparison.
Read the essay. Then answer these questions.
A.. Where does the author introduce the two subjects?
B. According to the author, why is Chinese tie to place so strong?
C. What does the author feel about American Space?
D. Explain if the author favors one topic over the other? Support your answer with lines from the essay.
20 points
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