EDRG 3321 Literature for Public Schools

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THE WRITING PROCESS

Hello, Classmates

Writing is defiantly a PROCESS! There are many different aspects to writing and a great writer will go through every process (sometimes more than once). Here is what we went over in class as a group.
The 5 steps in the writing process as is follows...

1.) Pre-writing:

Are there other researchers out there thinking like me?

What topics are related to my topic of interest?

What about the topic can I make into a thesis?

Where is there an arguable side of this topic?

Can I see and argue both sides?

What other topics interest me?

Is there anything in the media that I can make into a paper?

How might this affect my daily life?

What kind of examples can illustrate my point?

Is this a fresh/creative topic? Has it become too common?

2.)Drafting:

make a rough draft/out line of your paper

3.) Revising:

add to your story

delete un-wanted information

fix the sentence structure

Here are some other questions you can ask yourself when revising your paper...

Are you saying what you mean to say?

Will your audience understand it?

Will it accomplish the purpose?

4.) Editing:

word changes

minor sentence rearrangement

added transitions

changes for clarity

minor deletions

5.) Publishing:

Making the final hard copy of your paper

TURN BACK THE CLOCK

Trapped between the "Baby Boomers" and "Generation x" is a special generation... a generation we call "Children of the Eighties." It was the time of the real Rubiks cubes, and you were a "wanna be" Madonna, Duran Duran, Michael Jackson, or Cyndi Lauper. Many people expressed themselves through Fashion and Music. After all, M.T.V first made its appearance in the 1980's. However, there where many important world changing events that also took place in the eighty's. Whether you were born in this time period or not, this era has had some impact on your life. Lets turn back the clock to the best moments of our timeline, the 1980's!

A new fashion phase was taking place. Girls and young women where wearing Jelly bracelets & shoes! This was a time when people thought Jordache jeans with a flat-handle comb in the back pocket was cool! Even hair defied gravity. Movies and music videos made a huge impact on what clothing people bought as well. When Modonna made her first appearance on MTV wearing her pearl necklaces and lace gloves with the fingers cut off, every high school girl across the nation was wearing them the next day. However, girls weren't the only ones effected by the new fashions. Michael Jackson made wearing red leather jackets cool and sweat bands and "jerry curls" were sexy.

Some of the best movies and t.v. shows ever made were a product of the 1980's! The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, and E.T. were big hits. TV shows, like Knight Rider, Miami Vice, and Dallas proved to be a good past time in the evenings. Lets not forget the iconic TV show, The Simpsons, made their first debut as well. The 1980's was also a great time for technology too. Atari and Commador 64 were the ultimate gaming systems to own. Kids also went out and bought their first boom boxes and Walkman tape players. In the late Eighty's music Cd's first came out, and that was truly amazing since up until then, we had cassette tapes. With all of this wonderful stuff that was taking place in pop culture, there was a whole world of events that was also taking place.

The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders occurred when seven people died after taking pain-relief capsules that had been poisoned. Many families through away their medicines, not just Tylenol, in fear that they had an infected bottle. However, when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, people were in true disbelief. It was broadcast on every news station and a sadness swept a across our nation. The 1980's wasn't all bad though. The decade brought good memories along with it too. The discovery of the Titanic was made and the Berlin wall came down in Germany! People celebrated around the world. There were many major events that shook us up and brought us down.

No doubt about it, the Eighty's was an awesome time and if you asked anyone who grew up in this era, they too would agree. They say history repeats itself, so lets hope it does (minus the big hair/jerry curls!)