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Workshop 3

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Descriptive Language and Collaborative Writing

 

Definitions:

adjective: words that describe nouns, pronouns or other adjectives

adverbs: words that describe verbs (currently out of favor in descriptive writing. Use SPARINGLY)

collaborative: working together in an equal partnership

 

Tasks:

Writing:  In journal: Use at least six of the adjectives brainstormed by the class to write a paragraph about my desk.

 

Discussion: Share your paragraph with your partner. Read your partners and discuss: what does this description tell you about he character who owns the desk?

 

Writing: Write a companion character description of the character you see when you read your partner's writing (yes, this means you're using THEIR writing as the basis for YOUR writing -- this is one type of collaborative writing)

 

Discussion: So who owns a piece of collaborative writing, anyway?

 

(Put the piece you create in your "ideas for the future" file -- you may use this later or you may not. I will be reading all these and they do count as part of your grade)

 

WARNING!!!! AVOID WRITING DESCRIPTIONS LIKE THIS:

 

The cute-looking, bowlegged, tall, brown-haired, blue-eyed cowboy jauntily and quickly jumped onto his roan colored, bandy-legged, long maned, dark-eyed horse and road, clip-clop, jingle-jangle, off into the purple, pink and blue-hued glorious, beautiful, gorgeous sunset.

 

Although note the use of hyphenated adjectives. They can be very helpful -- if used sparingly!!!

 

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