This week we have read Colson Whitehead's article and have obtained many ways to explain our good and bad writing habits. We have also seen that there is probably not one golden rule that will work for everybody. Choose two of Whitehead's suggestions and tell us why you think they will help you as a writer. Explain with your own experience. Not sure where to start? Here's my example (NO STEALING OF MY EXAMPLE ALLOWED!) The first rule that works for me is Revise. Revise. Revise. because as a student I learned to put my work away when I was distracted or tired--then when I went back to it the next day I would easily find errors that I had been overlooking. As Whitehead tells us, every edit contributes to a new draft. Think of a blank page on a new day as a new start and you will not be as stressed next time you click on MS WORD.

Respond to one of the questions below. include at least two supporting details or examples. a. in “the literature of the middle east and south asia,” laura winkiel writes: “these stories us to understand the complex questions that middle easterners and south asian people ask as they stand at a crossroads of cultural and religious change.” explain how this statement applies to one of the selections you read. be sure to include the title of the selection and explain the crossroads that it illustrates. b. setting and mood are important elements in many of the stories in this unit. choose one story and describe some aspects of its setting: where it takes place; what mood is created by the details of weather, place, and time; and how this setting to convey the theme of the story. c. what did you learn about the role of women in the societies described in the reading selections in this unit? describe how the women cope with the conflicts they encounter. note: if you respond to essay (c), you may not choose the similar essay in the unit 3 unit test.

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Once you have finished revising your peer’s essay, continue to demonstrate your understanding of grammar and punctuation by writing an essay containing all of the grammatical concepts outlined above. your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example of every type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by a semicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing it about the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.