What's wrong with this ad?

Point out all the mistakes you can see here (not including the photograph of our new President).

Class 4

In class 4, we had our hourly, then a lecture on Creative Writing.

I asked you to write a paragraph imagining yourself as your mother preparing Sehri - what would be her thoughts; what would she say; how would she act? This is to be posted on your blogs as Entry 2 and will be marked for your grade.

Finally, you were asked to read Roald Dalh's "Poison" for the next class, and to bring the final drafts of your "Who Am I" essay for Class 5.

Poison

The short story by Roald Dalh that I've assigned you to read for the next class (Thursday for Section A, Tuesday for Section B after your hourly on Monday) is available at this site.  Please print it out and bring to class; I will be making the photocopy available on Monday at 90 Clifton.

Class 3

In this class, here's what we did:

• Passive and Active Voice exercises
  
• Listened to Poynter Podcasts about the active and passive voice - activate your verbs! Use passive voice to show the victim of the action
  
• We also worked on punctuation and listened to a Podcast about that - use punctuation to control pace and space
  
• Finally we had a lecture on Proofreading and Editing. Remember that you will make mistakes that the Microsoft Spell Checker won't catch. It's important that you read over your work to make sure you catch everything. Especially homonyms - words that are spelled or pronounced the same but have different meanings.
  

Blogs have been added to the blog list on the left. 

The hourly takes place in Class 4: Thursday, September 4 at 10:45 am for Section A and Monday, September 8 at 10:45 am for Section B. Good luck!

Do you agree?

This newspaper article explains the importance of prepositions in a very unique way!

The Writing Center

While you're working on your "Who Am I" essays, remember that you can take your drafts to the Writing Center at 100 SZABIST for feedback and help with your work. This is a free service for you so be sure to take advantage of it!

Section A Makeup Class

Our makeup class will be held tomorrow, Wednesday, September 3, 2008, in room 22 at the 90 Clifton Campus. The timing will be 10:45 am - 12:45 pm.

Ramadan Kareem!