Writing 5 Groups

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Here are the groups for Writing 5. The procedure is the same as last week. Please read and comment on the Writing 4 posts by the other three members of your group by this Thursday (9/17) at 4:00 pm. Then comment on the comments on your own post by Friday (9/18) at 4:00 pm.

For advice about how to actually write good comments, please see the Writing 5 Comments assignment. Keep the “two quotes” rule in mind: One from the post you are responding to, the other from Odell or some other text.

I have only put people who posted Writing 4 into these groups. If you have not posted Writing 4, but would still like to participate in and earn credit for this discussion, please email promptly me to let me know, and I will assign you to a group.

A

• glclarke3
• Cameron H
• cherylrkowalski
• ethanp

B

• Soren S
• ngs1278
• Robert M
• Spencer Smith

C

• laurencooper7
• AndyC
• Kale S
• Miranda A
• Brandon B

D

• Stuart A
• Matthew M
• Gianna S
• andrewp

E

• Giovanni B
• Nick C
• Patrick S
• Hannah S

F

• DaleB
• Tyler Meyer
• Suneil H
• Hoda Qasim

G

• anniewhittemore1
• Katie Donaghy
• Katherine O
• mattreon
• jpwalsh47

To find the posts by your group members . . .

Click on their name in the right-hand column of this website. Doing so will pull up all of the writings they have posted to the site.

If you’re in a five-person group, try to figure things out! Either respond to all four other posts, or pick three out of the four, but please try to make sure that everyone gets their fair share of comments.

You should also feel free to comment on other comments. Think of this as a version of a classroom conversation in which people are talking back and forth. I’ll be posting comments of my own to everyone’s work. They’re fair game. Feel free to respond to what I have to say, or ask me questions. We can keep this (written) conversation going until we all get tired of it.

Deadlines

• Thursday, 9/17, 4:00 pm: Comments on group members’ posts
• Friday, 9/18, 4:00 pm: Comment responding to the comments on your own post

Writing 5: Comments

Image: Typescript page of T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland, with comments by Ezra Pound. Original in the British Library.

For this assignment, I’d like you to do exactly what you did for Writing 3—which was to read the posts of several of your classmates and to write some comments in reply. I’ll create new groups for this week, and you’ll of course be discussing a new section of Odell’s book, but otherwise it’s pretty much the same activity.

For the “theory” of this assignment, then, please reread Writing 3. Allow me, though, to reprint the technical requirements here:

• Each of your comments must be at least 75 words long. Don’t worry if they run longer.
• You must quote directly from the post you are commenting on—even if you’re only repeating a key word or phrase the writer uses.
• You must quote from a moment in Odell’s book that the writer you’re responding to does not discuss. In other words, you need to take us to a different place in How to Do Nothing.
• While the tone of comments is often very casual and chatty, you still need to be professional. Proofread your comments before you send them.

Grading your first set of comments was simple enough: If you met all of these requirements, you earned 2 points. If you met most of them, or your work was late, you earned 1. If you did not post comments, you did not receive credit.

Deadlines

• Thursday, 9/17, 4:00 pm: Comments on group members’ posts
• Friday, 9/18, 4:00 pm: Comment responding to comments on your own post

I will post the groups for this assignment on Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning. Check this site for them. Have fun!