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Tal­king about Text Qua­li­ty

(Sour­ce: The Cen­ter for the Book in the Li­bra­ry of Con­gress)

Let­ters About Li­te­ra­tu­re (http://​read.​gov/​let­ters/)

Wri­ting a Let­ter About Li­te­ra­tu­re chal­len­ges you (as a team) to re­spond to what you have read, to de­ve­lop and ex­press your re­s­pon­ses to a work of li­te­ra­tu­re in de­tail, to craft your thoughts with power­ful lan­gua­ge, and to prac­tice a very im­portant wri­ting skill - tar­ge­ting a spe­ci­fic au­di­ence (here: the aut­hor).

Task: As  a team, use the fol­lo­wing works­heets pro­vi­ded  by The Cen­ter for the Book in the Li­bra­ry of Con­gress to help you meet this chal­len­ge. Plea­se do all the 'com­pul­so­ry' works­heets and choo­se at least two from the op­tio­nal ones. Make the most of the fact that you have the chan­ce to work as a team, i.e. you may dis­tri­bu­te the works­heets amongst your­sel­ves and then in­struct each other.

 Com­pul­so­ry

Op­tio­nal

Works­heet 1: Cor­re­spond, Don't Com­pli­ment!
Focus: The dis­tinc­tion bet­ween fan let­ters and thought­ful cor­re­spon­dence.

Works­heet 2: Sy­the­si­ze, Don't Sum­ma­ri­ze!
Focus: The dis­tinc­tion bet­ween sum­ma­ri­zing what hap­pe­n­ed or sy­the­si­zing (here: re­spon­ding to what hap­pe­n­ed by wea­ving in de­tails about the re­a­der's own life, thus ke­eping the au­di­ence in mind).

Works­heet 6: Let­ter Wri­ting For­mat & Ru­bric
Focus: cha­rac­te­ris­tic fea­tures of for­mal let­ters.

 

Works­heet 3: The Lead Pa­ra­graph - How to Hook the Re­a­der in 25 Words or Less!
Focus: Crea­ting in­tro­duc­to­ry pas­sa­ges which are in­te­res­ting and fo­cu­sed.

Works­heet 4: Boo­kends (...​or how to close your let­ter)
Focus: Opening and clo­sing pa­ra­graphs; the dif­fe­rence bet­ween 'lit-crit' (li­te­ra­tu­re ana­ly­sis) exam and the par­ti­cu­lar wri­ting as­si­gn­ment cal­led Let­ters About Li­te­ra­tu­re.

Works­heet 5: A Few Words About Vo­ca­bu­la­ry
Focus: Crea­ting lan­gua­ge  awa­ren­ess con­cerning choice of vo­ca­bu­la­ry and style.

Works­heet 7: You be the Judge!
Focus: Proo­frea­ding / re­vi­sing works­heets 1-6

Works­heet 8: Be­wa­re of Dead Ends and De­tours!
Focus: Avo­iding road­block and de­tours in wri­ting: stay­ing fo­cu­sed/the­ma­tic struc­tu­re.

 

 

Text qua­li­ty: Her­un­ter­la­den [docx][13 KB]

Text qua­li­ty: Her­un­ter­la­den [pdf][66 KB]

 

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