Today, everyone signed up for debate slots. If you were absent, please e-mail me, and I'll send you the sign-up sheet. I'll post the debate schedule here by Saturday.
Then we looked at the robbery descriptions. (My own version is here.) A few things I pointed out were:
- Stay consistent with your tense (it can be past or present, but don't jump between them).
- Organise your description logically.
- Avoid fancy vocabulary (like brandish) when you're not sure what it means. Either look it up, or use a simpler word.
- Watch out for sentence fragments ("frag"; more info and exercises here, here, or here)
- Also watch out for subject-verb agreement errors ("SVA"; see here, here, or here)
- Finally, make sure you've got your apostrophes in the right places.
- Follow the instructions in this post.
- Next Thursday, we'll be debating college tuition costs. In preparation, check out the Rae Report pp 18-24, with a focus on the last two pages. Also, have a look at a number of relevant links from the website of the Canadian Federation of Students.
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