Please post your questions for Wednesday discussion here. Post questions from here on out, if possible, so that I know what your needs are and can organize what we can discuss beforehand. Remember to post by midnight the night before class, so that everyone has time to read through them before we meet. Try not only to come up with a question, but to begin thinking about an answer, or examples (page numbers) of things you want to start to address the questions with.
This is a discussion-based seminar class, and will become much more so when we start in on the literature on Friday. Participating, particularly in class, is a big requirement of the course. Everyone is expected to bring something to the table. I want everyone to feel free to speak in the classroom, to ask whatever kinds of questions, or raise whatever kind of issues you want to in relation to the day's readings. The more you talk, the more you are going to get out of it. Taking the initiative in discussion can only improve the overall experience for everybody. Thanks!
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I'm so sorry that this is definitely not in by midnight, but it was bid night for sororities and I didn't realize it was going to be such a long night!
Anyway, I did not exactly agree with the lesson on "resumptive modifiers" on page 99 because it seemed to go against what Williams mentioned in chapter seven about conciseness. I can't find the exact page right now, but I know he mentioned something about not using the same word too often or too close together, but resumptive modifiers do just that. I suppose if you use them sparingly it would be an acceptable writing technique, but I did not really like the sentences in which they were used.
I thought the bracketed sentences and diagrammed paragraphs throughout chapter 9 were hard to understand. I had a lot of trouble following the diagrams, but that may just be me. I thought the concept of light and heavy words was interesting though, and one that I had never really given much thought to.
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