Writing Guide Page

Writing Guide Page:

A Writing Guide Page is completed after you receive written feedback from your teacher. It entails identifying all of your Writing Principle and Pattern Errors and fixing them on a new document. The Writing Guide Page is placed at the top of your paper and submitted your teacher at the next assignment due date.

To create a Writing Guide Page, you must first find all the numbers on your draft. Any number with the number sign # in front of it is a Writing Guide error.

Here is the Writing Guide page process:

1. You write out the number

2. List the title of the Rule or Principle*

3. Define it in your own words*

4. Copy the “problem sentence” or paragraph below the number and definition

5. Rewrite the problem sentence or paragraph below

For multiple violations of the same Principle, just write out the number, title, and definition once and add the problem sentence and fixed sentence below the others.

Here is an example of a Writing Guide Page with two comma splice errors:

WRITING GUIDE PAGE:

#5 Avoid comma splices:

DEFINITION: This means that writers should not join two sentences with a comma. They should use a semi colon if the sentences are related or a period if they are not. Writers can also use a comma and F.A.N.B.O.Y.S. to join two sentences.

PROBLEM SENTENCE: Roger Federer extended his follow through in his slice to keep the ball low, the ball skidded really low and Rafael Nadal bunted the ball into the net.

FIXED SENTENCE: Roger Federer extended his follow through in his slice to keep the ball low; the ball skidded really low and Rafael Nadal bunted the ball into the net.

PROBLEM SENTENCE: The sixth most searched for subject on the internet is poetry, nobody believes that poetry is this popular on the web.

FIXED SENTENCE: The sixth most searched for subject on the internet is poetry; nobody believes that poetry is this popular on the web.

MODEL WRITING GUIDE PAGE

5. Semicolon and Colon Usage to Join Two Sentences

• • Use a semicolon to join two independent sentences that are similar in content.

  • Use a colon to link an example to a sentence.

INCORRECT:

Antigone would have been a more fit leader as she could have made policies that were morally informed and correct, --------------5-----------------however, her wisdom did not save her.

CORRECT:

Antigone would have been a more fit leader as she could have made policies that were morally informed and correct; however, her wisdom did not save her.

INCORRECT:

After his outburst, there is a pause, --------------5----------------- in that moment Jessup had the ability to say he was wrong and concede his actions, but he chooses not to do so.

CORRECT

After his outburst, there is a pause; in that moment Jessup had the ability to say he was wrong and concede his actions, but he chooses not to do so.

31. Use Transitional Topic Sentences

• • Write a topic sentence that refers back to the topic of the previous paragraph and introduces then introduces the topic of analysis in this paragraph.

INCORRECT:

--------------31-----------------Antigone was morally principled and more correct than Creon, but the tyranny that blinded her uncle prevailed. At this point in the play, Antigone has decided to bury her brother’s dead body. Expressing that she follows the high natural law over Creon’s societal law that commands all to leave the body unburied, Antigone tells Creon:

“The immortal unrecorded laws of God.

They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,

Operative forever, beyond man utterly.

I knew I must die, even without your decree:

I am only a mortal. And if I must die

Now, before it is my time to die,

Surely there is no hardship”

(Sophocles, 839)

CORRECT:

While Ismene refused to help her sister bury their brother’s body, Antigone was morally principled and more correct than both Ismene and Creon, but the tyranny that blinded her uncle prevailed. At this point in the play, Antigone has decided to bury her brother’s dead body. Expressing that she follows the high natural law over Creon’s societal law that commands all to leave the body unburied, Antigone tells Creon:

The immortal unrecorded laws of God.

They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,

Operative forever, beyond man utterly.

I knew I must die, even without your decree:

I am only a mortal. And if I must die

Now, before it is my time to die,

Surely there is no hardship

(Sophocles, 839)

36. Cite Parenthetically

• • Use specific citations of the original source

  • For websites, use the last name of the author of the web site and, if there are multiple web pages by this author cited, use the title of the web page as well.

INCORRECT:

Similarly to Creon, Colonel Jessup feels he was correct in creating his positive law commands. At this moment in the film A Few Good Men, Lt. Kaffee is agitating Colonel Jessup and exposes Jessup’s contradictory statements. When prodded about the morality of his order that resulted in the death of a marine, -Jessup yelled:

you can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You?! … I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom! … Santiago’s death -while tragic- probably saved lives! And my existence -while grotesque and inconrehenisable to you- saves lives!

(Jessup in A Few Good Men)

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CORRECT:

Similarly to Creon, Colonel Jessup feels he was correct in creating his positive law commands. At this moment in the film A Few Good Men, Lt. Kaffee is agitating Colonel Jessup and exposes Jessup’s contradictory statements. When prodded about the morality of his order that resulted in the death of a marine, -Jessup yelled:

you can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You?! … I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom! … Santiago’s death -while tragic- probably saved lives! And my existence -while grotesque and inconrehenisable to you- saves lives!

(Huss “A Few Good Men Screenplay”)