Writing and Gammar Websites From E-Tutoring

Some of you have received some excellent advice and websites to go to from your E-Tutors. Please take 5 minutes refer to your E-Tutoring printouts attached to your essays and share them with all of us. I will then use this list to compile a PowerPoint that you can access from the shared files folder. Please mention what the E-Tutoring link focuses on and then include the address of the link. If the tutor gave some explanation or examples that you found helpful, please included them as well. Please double check the link and click on it to make sure that it is an active email address.

For example:
Passive Voice versus Active Voice in Writing
In writing, you need to avoid using the passive voice and use the active voice. The active voice will make your writing more interesting.•http://www.unc.edu/dept/wcweb/handouts/passivevoice/html •http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl.resources/539/1
Do not just copy from your E-Tutoring. We do not want to know comments specific to your essay, but to writing in general.

Thank you for contributing to everyone's learning.

Meredith Arabas

New Narrative Thesis

Please write your thesis statement to your new narrative. Remember, a narrative thesis must state your event (topic) and what you learned, moral, or why your event is worth telling. Your narrative must be compelling. Please proofread and use Word and then transfer your post into the blog. This counts as homework/participation and a post with incomplete sentences and a lot of spelling errors does not show me a lot of effort.

For example:
My three year old son falling in the water was terrifying, but it was a wake up call to me that I had to teach him to swim or risk losing him.

Here is a helpful link on writing narratives: http://www.rscc.cc.tn.us/owl&writingcenter/OWL/Narration.html Mrs. Arabas