Please read chapter 13 in Tufte on “Cohesion.” Process what she is trying to explain, then write a 5 to 7 sentence paragraph that demonstrates cohesion in your writing. Make your example interesting. Be prepared to discuss the decisions you made when writing and revising this piece. Computer printed please.
Remember that our class is cancelled for Thursday, March 21st. Below are the assignments:
Homework assignment due Thursday, March 28th
• READ Partridge Chapters 9-12
• Finish up “Spaces Between Words”
• Read examples from Tufte on “Sentence Openers and Inversion”
• Craft 15 sentences, three for each section below: Conjunctions, Omission of Conjunctions, Items in a Series, the Correlatives, Coordination. Bring these to class, typed. These should be sentences of your own devising, preferably with a coherent storyline, that play with the issues described by Tufte in her chapter on “Conjunctions and Coordination”
8 New Punctuation Marks We Desperately Need
Weren’t we just talking about something like this?
Here is some material to help you prepare for the first test.
1st Test Prep — what to read/what to know
1st Test Prep 2 — a short version of the test
1st Test Prep 3 — the test I gave Spring 2012
Suggested by folks in twitterland for use in this course:
#YouveBeenPunct
#PuncsNotDead
#punct
#period
#tinydots
To the class blog for Punctuation: History & Craft (LITT 2413) at Stockton College.
You can find a transcript of our final class conversation here. These are my notes on your suggestions for improving the course. If you have additional thoughts, send them along to Thomas.Kinsella@stockton.edu.