Writing+Wikis

=Steps for Creating Your Writing Wiki= We will use the writing wiki as a personal portfolio where you will submit formal essays and collect feedback.

Creating Your Writing Wiki: 1. Log onto wikispaces.com using your id and password. 2. Click on your Id in the upper right; then click "new wiki." 3. Call your wiki your first name and writing wiki. For example, "Ryanwritingwiki" 4. Set your wiki to private under settings. 5. Invite "Mr.Lynch" (no spaces) to join your wiki. 6. Personalize and decorate your wiki. Who in our class has the best design sense?

=Your First Assignment:= Using your rhetorical analysis from Richard Louv's "The Last Child in the Woods," you will revise one body paragraph to show your skills as a strong analyzer. Your goal is to take your body paragraph and strengthen the analysis using the techniques we learned in class.

Quality analysis involves:
 * Referencing a specific rhetorical technique and text evidence to make an original claim about the moves the author makes to create meaning. For example: "In 'The Last Child in the Woods,' Louv uses repetition to highlight the difference between the past and present and warn the reader that people today are trading the real nature for manufactured nature."
 * using strong analysis words like "suggests," highlights," "portrays," "emphasizes," imagines," "warns," etc.
 * following the 3:1 Rule, which requires 3 sentences of analysis for each single quotation.

Your Task: In Microsoft Word, copy the body paragraph that you have selected to revise. Rewrite the entire body paragraph so that it is a model of quality analysis. Post the paragraph on the first page of your writing wiki and title it "Louv Analysis Paragraph."