During Monday’s class, Barbara talked about AAWWUBIS…or however you spell that. I thought this was really helpful, again like the use of FANBOYS. I was surprised at how few times I used any of these AAWWUBIS words in my blogs, but was happy to find that most of them were followed by commas. I really like the idea of using these abbreviations to understand the words’ meanings and how they are used in writing. However, I was a little confused on one of my blogs and not following one of my introductory phrases with a comma. My blog was used during one of the examples when Stephanie and Shannon were presenting, and the sentences was, “This week I was writing a paper for one of my classes and I found myself using it’ and its in the wrong places. Barbara at first said that there needed to be a comma after the “this week” part, but then later said it was a judgment call. I am still not sure what I should have done there. I really like that we are now adding mini-lessons to give some clarification on topics we have somewhat covered in class. I think that this idea of a mini-lesson is an excellent resource for the classroom.
After the mini-lesson on Wednesday, we started looking for scrapbooking material in the newspapers and magazines that Barbara provided. I was happy to have completed my “errors in print” section, and found that The Spokesman Review is a great source for errors…embarrassing ones to be exact. I really wish that we could use spelling errors for that section, because in the sports section of the paper, I found that football was spelled fotball, and I nearly fell off my chair. In fact, a lot of my “errors in print” section comes from the sports page in the Spokesman. I found another football error that talked about a, “47-year-field goal,” instead of 47 yards. I have now found that every time I skim a magazine or newspaper, I am constantly looking for errors or “breaking the rules.” I am trying to get my errors and breaking the rules out of the way so that I can have fun with the gems section. I am sure that most of my gems will come from ESPN or Sports Illustrated magazine.
I am happy that we had time in class to scrapbook, because it really helps when you have peers surrounding you, and helping to clarify what is and isn’t considered an error. I would like to vote for more scrapbook time in class, because it’s enjoyable and makes a little less stressful, since we have about 20 people who could give some good feedback. I hope that I am doing everything that is expected from me for the scrapbook. I feel like I have a good grasp on everything we have touched on, but I just hope that I am not finding a minute error, that isn’t exactly what Barbara is looking for.
My question for the week: Well my question relates back to my blog example, and what I mentioned in my first paragraph. Would you guys put a comma after my opening, “This week?” I am curious to know and pondering whether it is indeed a judgment call.
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In our original examples (we actually made a slide show and Barbara kindly told us we over did it :) ), we said that it was a style choice, I think that it can go both ways. It's really up to you on how you intended the audience to hear that sentence. If you want us to pause for that possible introduction, then yes, a comma would apply. But it could stand alone a simple sentence.
ReplyDeletePlease note I am aware I made a grammatical error in my response. If I could fix it I would, but I already posted. Just know I would have put a semi colon after the word "choice".
ReplyDeleteAs a reader I would suggest not putting a comma after “This week”. Of course that is a style choice and my preference, but the way your sentence is structured it sounds as if “this week” should flow directly into the rest of your sentence; it might even be a bit distracting with a comma. You don’t seem to be using the “this week” to add emphasis to the rest of your sentence so I would say “leave it out”.
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