Mid Term

English 1010

Composition I

Mid-term Exam

Fall 2005

Section I

1. The three E's are explain, entertain, and express.

Explain- this means to explain the topic that the writer is writing in great detail.

Entertain- to entertain you must provide interest for the person who is reading your paper.

Express- this means to express your beliefs on the subject that the writer is writing on.

2. Cubing - Cubing is used for quickly exploring a writing topic, probing it from six different perspectives. There are six perspectives in cubing. Describing - What does the subject look like? What size is it? What is its color? Its shape? Its texture? Name its parts.

Dialoguing - A dialogue is a conversation between two or more people. You can use it to search for topics, find a focus, explore ideas or consider opposing view points. To construct a dialogue by yourself, imagine two particular people talking, hold a conversation yourself with some imagined person, or simply talk out loud to yourself.

Dramatizing - Dramatizing is an invention activity developed as a way of thinking about how people interact and as a way of analyzing stories and films. Use a five point star to remember action, actor, setting, motive and method.

Keeping a Journal - Professional writers often use journals to keep notes. Journals consist of notes to remind the writer of happenings, thoughts or descriptions of particular moments.

Looping - Writing quickly to explore some aspect of a topic and then looping back to your original starting point or to a new starting point to explore another aspect. Follow these six steps to looping.

Write down your area of interest

Write nonstop for 10 minutes of your area of interest

Pause to reread what you have written

Write nonstop for another 10 minutes

Summarize in one sentence to complete the second loop

Keep looping until one of your summaries produces a focus or thesis

3. Naming - Naming calls readers' attention to observable features of the subject being described. To describe a room, for example, you might name object you see as you look around, such as a bed, pillows, blankets, dresser, clothes, books, a CD player and CDs.

Detailing - Detailing makes the features more specific or particularized. Naming answers the questions "What is it?", What are its parts or features?", What is it made of?" and "What is its value?"

4. Sense of Sight - A description of what someone may see.

1. Pulling the black veins out of the backs of fleshy prawns.

2. She wore a white skirt and yellow sweater and a thin gold necklace.

Sense of Hearing - A description of what someone may hear.

1. Use of Onomatopoeia's such as "boom", "tingle", "squeak" and "hiss".

2. Use the technique synesthesia such as applying words commonly used to describe one sense to another, such as describing sounds