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Style Matters Workshop
We hold a 10-week long Brown Bag luncheon workshop series each semester. We examine faculty writing and work together to improve specific pieces of writing.
Fall 2009, Mondays 12-1 Kristine Hansen (kristine_hansen@byu.edu)
276 MCKB Beth Hedengren (beth_hedengren@byu.edu)
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Facilitator |
Week |
Reading (In Style, by Joseph Williams) |
Assignment |
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Beth and Kristine |
Sept. 14 |
Lessons 1 Understanding Style |
Submit a piece of writing from your discipline (not your own) that demonstrates good style. Choose something that might be published in a journal in your field. Why do you consider this document to be well written? |
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Beth |
Sept. 21 |
Lessons 10 & 11 Coherence |
Bring 1-2 pp of a piece of writing you are ready to polish. Bring any examples you have noticed of particularly good or particularly bad style. |
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Kristine |
Sept. 28 |
Lesson 2 Correctness |
Bring 1-2 pp of a piece of writing you are ready to polish. Bring any examples you have noticed of particularly good or particularly bad style. |
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Beth |
Oct. 5 |
Lesson 3 Actions |
Bring 1-2 pp of a piece of writing you are ready to polish. Bring any examples you have noticed of particularly good or particularly bad style. |
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Oct. 12 |
No Class: WM Lunch |
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Kristine |
Oct. 19 |
Lesson 4 Characters |
Bring 1-2 pp of a piece of writing you are ready to polish. Bring any examples you have noticed of particularly good or particularly bad style. |
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Beth |
Oct. 26 |
Lesson 5 Cohesion and coherence |
Bring 1-2 pp of a piece of writing you are ready to polish. Bring any examples you have noticed of particularly good or particularly bad style. |
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Kristine |
Nov. 2 |
Lesson 6 Emphasis |
Bring 1-2 pp of a piece of writing you are ready to polish. Bring any examples you have noticed of particularly good or particularly bad style. |
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Beth |
Nov. 9 |
Lesson 7 Concision |
Bring 1-2 pp of a piece of writing you are ready to polish. Bring any examples you have noticed of particularly good or particularly bad style. |
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Kristine |
Nov. 16 |
Lessons 8 & 9 Shape and Elegance |
Bring 1-2 pp of a piece of writing you are ready to polish. Bring any examples you have noticed of particularly good or particularly bad style |
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Nov. 23 |
No class: Thanksgiving week |
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Beth and Kristine |
Nov. 30 |
Lesson 12 Ethics Workshop Review & Celebration! |
Bring a transparency with a short passage that you have revised for improved style. Be prepared to explain what principles of style you used to revise. |