In the first chapter, I had to compare their idea of a writing center journal to our own. They suggest discussing tutoring, but our journal seems to be a means of communication. They also left out the rant or rave box, and group meetings, which are both important. In chapter two, the words they used to describe the writing process of before and the current views on the writing process didn't seem very different. Prewriting replaced outlining. I think everyone has a different writing process, and the book agrees, which is good. I think it is funny that teachers try to teach the writing process, since I always rebelled because their way never worked. I also think that when defining the different stages of writing, ESL students should have their own category. Even within the group of ESL, there are so many different stages of understanding among writing. Even in one day, I worked with two students around the same place in school but at very different levels of understanding. I hope the book addresses this, because working with ESL students can be a completely different experience.
Ch. 6 (second rule)
1. It is okay to end a sentence with a preposition.
2. No official exception. If it sounds bad, don't do it.
3. "Who are you going to the movies with?"
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Ch. 7
1. To avoid dangling participles, make sure that the person or thing performing the action in the second part of the sentence is the same person or thing that was performing the action described in the "-ing" or "-ed" verb in the first part of the sentence.
2. No exception.
3. Incorrect example - "Panting in the heat, my shirt stuck to my body."
Correct example - "Panting in the heat, I felt my shirt sticking to my body."
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You know, I think it's really hard to talk about writing process without nailing down something concrete. Then, once you do that, you realize you have limited what you mean. The process movement in composition had this very problem. The research showed writing processes as very complex but when it got boiled down for textbooks, it turned into 3 parts.
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