Styling Up Your Opening and Closing Arguments: September 8, 2016

Focus: How do we open and close our essays in a compelling way?

Reminder: Today is the last day for drafting in class.

1. Warming up with a goal and a little image-inspired creative writing

2. Writing what you really want to get across in your intro and/or conclusion

• Roaming around in a quick gallery walk of each other's ideas and images

• Taking your creative writing skills and showing them off in your introduction and/or conclusion

3. Reminding you of your class guidelines as a source for great ideas for your introduction and conclusion

4. Drafting and conferencing, drafting and conferencing

5. Posting on today's class blog one thing you want addressed during peer-editing on Friday and Monday.

HW:
1. The complete rough draft is due before class TOMORROW, Friday, Sep 9.

• We will publish your final drafts in class on Friday, Sep 16.

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