Day 19: Blitzkrieg Kriticism!

There's been a  little concern about your rough drafts not being finished enough.  It's okay. They're rough drafts; I'm not expecting them to be finished.  But we're going to play around with those little unfinished beauties today.

Today, we're doing peer review, but not just any peer review criticism... this is...


Blitzkrieg Kritik! 


Basically, I just want you to take a minute and look at ALL of your classmates' rough drafts and give them a little love, a little help, a little something special.  In other words, make their papers bleed with corrections because you're doing this anonymously people!

You can start with mine:


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_1KbFhAyb1Y1xxo9Q1KhsnbLB_bGa5WKMJK3vghuZNw/edit?hl=en_US


Meanwhile, you can listen to "Blitzkrieg Pop" by the Ramones.

Or, you can listen to my fantasy metal station on Pandora... which is essentially made for this activity!






I've also received some questions about citing the other sources for your papers.  You can check the MLA sections in your DK Handbooks, or you can go to the Purdue OWL (which I always Google to find).  OWL stands for Online Writing Lab, and this site is my go to place when I want to look something up for MLA really quickly.


Here's the link: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/





Grammar Review:


How about this classic, little gem?

Your Daily Assignment:

Make sure your draft is posted to Google Docs, set it to public editing, post the link on your blog, and then take a minute or two on each of your classmates' papers to comment by tomorrow at noon.  This is a chance to see what other people are doing, and to use all of your collective skills to help each other as writers.  EVERY SINGLE CLASSMATE GETS TO READ EVERY OTHER CLASSMATE'S PAPER!  IT'S LIKE MAGIC, ONLY BETTER!

Your final draft should be e-mailed to me by tomorrow at midnight as per usual.

I know that the syllabus says something about posting a link to your favorite game on your blog; hold off on that, we may get there.  At this point, time is of the essence.