week 1
five steps to succeed in a mooc :
1.orient (materials ; times ; links)
2.declare (thoughts ; post)
3.network (communication ; comments)
4.cluster (connect ; community)
5.focus (reading ; projects)
parts of speech
adverb
agreement
article
auxiliary verb
comparative
compound noun
conditional
conjunction
continuous
contraction
count noun
demonstrative pronoun
determiner
direct object
future tense/aspect
gerund
infinitive
intransitive verb
irregular noun
modal
mass noun
modifier
noun
participle
past tense
perfect tense
phrasal verb
plural
possessive
preposition
present tense
pronoun
proper noun
reflexive pronoun
relative pronoun
subjunctive
superlative
transitive verb
verb
parts of the sentence
subject
the imperative(implied subject "you")
predicates(verb)
phrases
clauses(independent;dependent)
week 2
writing beautiful sentences
elements of strong sentences:
1.clear
2.precise vocabulary
3.strong verbs
4.correct length
beautiful sentences:
- me Ishmael.
- It was a bright cold day in April,and the clocks were striking thirteen.
- It was the best of times,it was the worst of times,it was the age of wisdom,it was the age of foolishness,it was the epoch of belief,it was the epoch of incredulity,it was the season of Light,it was the season of Darkness,it was the spring of hope,it was the winter of despair.
- Someone must have slandered Josef K.,for one morning,without having done anything truly wrong,he was arrested.
- Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life,or whether that station will be held by anybody else,these pages must show.
- Mrs.Dalloway said she would buy the flower herself.
- It was a pleasure to burn.
- A story has no beginning or end;arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
- In my youger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
- He was an inch,perhaps two,under six feets,powerfully built,and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward,and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.
- He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
- High,high above the North Pole,on the first day of 1969,two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour.
- So we beat on,boats against the current,borne back ceaselessly into the past.
- Are there any questions?
paragraphs
why need?
- breaks up large pieces of text
- divides writing into logical sections
- makes reading easier
- shows the writer's thought process
topic sentences
providing support
ending your paragraph
Remember,each paragraph should have one main idea.when you have something new to write about,start a new paragraph.
