Friday, October 29, 2010

29-10-2010

Hello All
As for today's assignment:
Read the comments and suggestions you received from me as well as your peers and try to write the final draft of your essay accordingly.

Monday, October 25, 2010

25-10-2010

HI YOU
How are you doing?
I want you to comment on the drafts of three of your peers and send the names of your friends to me.
See you

Thursday, October 21, 2010

21-10-2010

Hello all,
as for today
write the first draft of the argumentative topic you decided.
Then, send it to your weblog.

Monday, October 18, 2010

19-10-2010

Today we have started with the argumentative mode of writing.
For more information about argumentative writing you can access the link about argumentative writing at the end of the class weblog.
As for today's assignment,
1. choose an argumentative topic and use one of the pre-writing strategies to write ideas about this topic.
2. Send the topic and the ideas to their weblogs

See you next lecture

14-10-2010

Hello All
First I would like to thank you all for working hard in reviewing your peers' essays as well as modifying your various drafts of the essay.
As for today's assignment:
Read all the comments and suggestions you received from your friends as well as me and write the final draft of the essay. I hope that your final draft will be really a great success because you did your best in the previous stages and surpassed my expectation.
Thanks again and keep on hard work

Monday, October 11, 2010

11-10-2010

Hello All,
NOTE:
As a kind of facilitating the process of peer editing and giving you time to read your peers' essays and edit them on a standardized rules, I decreased the number of the essays that ou should peer edit to 3 essays only.
So, choose three of your friends' essays and peer edit them using the editing checklist I gave you in today's lecture.
Good luck and keep on hard work

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

7-10-2010

Hello all
As for today's assignment:
1. Access the weblogs of 4 of your friends and critically read their first drafts of the essay, then write comments and suggestions for modifying and improving their drafts. In the critical reading process, you can make use of the editing checklist uploaded to the class weblog.
2. Read the comments and suggestions sent to your weblog about the draft of your essay, and try to re-write the draft after modifying it and correcting the mistakes, if found.
3. Publish the final draft of your essay on your weblog under the title of " Final Draft".

Monday, October 4, 2010

4-10-2010

Hi Everybody
As for today's assignments:
1. Use one of the pre-writing strategies to write ideas about the following topic
"Describe the cause and effects of pollution in the Egyptian environment. Narrow your topic to one form of pollution, such as something that causes air, water or land pollution”.
2. Write a preliminary draft about the topic and send it to your weblog