Good morning, all! We’ve made it through the stop-and-start part of our semester, and just at the right time. Wednesday we’ll have peer editing for Essay 1. A week from Wednesday, Sept 29, your first formal essay will be due.

Today, we’re spending time looking at some of the shorter assignments you’ve done with sources to prepare for Essay 1. These are the library assignment (where you were to practice summary and citation) and the blog post #2 (where you were to practice response and opinion writing). These are important skills and they take practice.

After we talk about summary and response, we’ll do some brainstorming about what goes into an effective first paragraph. From there, we’ll start thinking about all the sources and evidence we’ve compiled. How do we organize this under the argument we’re making: “I’ve decided to read X because Y…”