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Knowledge of Conventions

1. Learn common formats for different kinds of texts.


Define:

This means I know how to set up an essay, a journal, a paragraph, an e-mail, a letter, or whatever. It means I know what one expects when she asks for an essay from me.

Example:

An example from one type of text, my journal, shows that I wrote without using any proper format since I wrote to myself. I started out with, “The letters I wrote to myself in jail.” This isn’t a complete sentence, but that’s okay. In an essay, I wrote, “In America, most of the foods we eat are distorted versions of foods from other cultures.” Since my journal is just for me, and that is expected in that type of text, I’m allowed to make mistakes and not worry about it, whereas, in my essay, my language sounds professional and like it should since I’m writing for someone else.

Conclusion

Since I’m aware that different texts have different looks and styles, I know that each type is set up in a different way.



Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Define:

This means that when another reads it, it is grammatically correct and it makes sense.

Example:

Here is a sentence that has no errors, thanks to my hard work, and it reads, “akldjfaeioparu. Aofopiuweufrl. A;doifjero;ajtfa;lkdjf.”

Conclusion:

Since that sentence has no errors, I can control surface features and others understand what I write.

540-- Class Meetings...

April 19:

Alejandro: 540
Demetra 550
Laura: 600
Alexander:610
620
Ruby: 630
Marisela 640
Jesus: 650


April 24

Esmeralda: 530
Taryn 540
Lorenzo 550
Matt: 600
Spencer: 620
Cyrus: 640
Anna 630
Erica 610
Bryanna 650


April 26

Phaola: 620
Addie: 540
Tanya: 550
Debra: 600
Dee: 630
Lorenzo 610
Francis: 640
Jesus : 650