Hi All,
I'm not usually one to jump on the latest bandwagon but I must say that I do recommend Google Docs. If you haven't discovered it yet, Google Docs is a web based word processor. There are a couple of serious advantages to using it. If you use Google Docs for all your EWC work you will never run into the difficulty of working at home and then not being able to open your file on the school computers.
Secondly, if you use Google Docs you can access your work at home and at school without a usb key or emailing the file to yourself. It's not as fancy as Microsoft Word, but it certainly has everything you will need for EWC. Today was the only day in the past six months of me using the program that it hasn't been working. Certainly it hasn't let me down as often as Wordperfect.
So it's been a couple of days since I've heard from anyone. How did you find your first Journal Topic? What are some of your needs? Is there anyone who would like some help getting a blog up and running so that they don't need to have a journal?
I've also updated the Course Calendar. You may wish to bookmark it if you haven't already.
Write to me,
Mr. P
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Hey, I've got a question.
ReplyDeleteSince a radio play script is an informal text, we're using contractions, slang, and other things that might show up in a natural conversation. It's still school, but can we use slang and swear words? If yes, how far can we go with it?
And about content; how 'PG' do we have to keep it?
I probably could ask you in class later, I just wanted to use the blog ;)
Thanks!
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ReplyDeleteHi Sam,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your question. As a class you are batting 1000- all the questions so
far have been very worth answering.
Yes. One of the writing dimensions that we, as English teachers, are suppose to be helping you to develop some expertise with is the whole concept of audience. Simply put, we write differently for different audiences and purposes.
This means that when we are writing a literary essay for a university professor we would want to demonstrate that we have a grasp of English at its most formal, i.e. no slang, colloquialsisms or grammatical abominations.
For the purpose of a radio play which is designed to entertain (possibly to inform) a wide audience, you will want your dialogue to reflect the way people actually speak. So slang, swear words, malapropisms and incomplete sentences are entirely appropriate.
As far as the question of how far you can push the boundaries of common deceny, that is largely up to you and your parents. If your content is extremely "mature," I probably won't be posting it on this blog, but I would be quite happy to evaluate it as an EWC assignment.
Bye for now,
CP
i know this is for the radio play assignment, but i just had a quick question about the children's story. On the rubric sheet, it states that the story should be at least six hundred words, but it also states that we should aim for twelve to fourteen pages. Does the twelve to fourteen pages refer to the finshed product where the text will be spread amongst the story?
ReplyDeleteMr. Pierce, I am QUITE disappointed in you for not blogging in over a week.
ReplyDeleteThat is all.
Lenora