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Category Archives: Edit and Revise

Website Migration

Due to the increasing number of advertisements and loss of storage space at Edublogs, I am migrating this site to a new location for the remainder of the year. 

The new address is http://hopkinsnhs.wordpress.com.
While it is currently up and running, the new site will probably see some minor changes in presentation as I use it.  All [...]

Writing 9 Mods 5,6 November 1, 2008

LISTENING TASK
Tomorrow we will begin looking at your Frisbee essays.  Please make sure that you have a copy in your network folder for tomorrow.

Writing 9 Mods 5,6 October 24, 2008

REVISE AND EDIT
We have been spending the last few days working through your essays on the last presidential debate.  It is very important that you are learning how your teachers will use the RUBRIC to assess your written work.  So in addition to the template tree map:

… we should be working to learn the five [...]

Writing 9 Mods 5,6 October 16, 2008

LISTENING TASK
We talked about writing from a tree map providing a good organizational structure, but at the same time perhaps making our writing sound formulaic and choppy.  We went over some revision ideas using the pieces we wrote as a group yesterday.
Tomorrow we will begin a listening task about last night’s Presidential debate.  We will [...]

Writing 9 on September 4, 2008

Today we discussed editing and revision, defining each, and discussing their differences.  I like the following delineation of each term in the following from the University of Queensland website:
“It is useful to think of revising and editing as separate processes. There is overlap, but basically we take revision to be a continual process of writing [...]