Hangeul Day

Hi all,
Happy Hangeul Day- What an awesome holiday. Here we are in a writing class enjoying a day off dedicated to writing. What could be better?
For those of you in my Wednesday-Friday classes- first off, I did not record a video of my lecture because quite honestly, we did not really go over much more than what I had talked with you about in Wednesday's class.

However, I did make two very important points that I would like to share with you.

1) Remember, the job of the supporting sentences is 'to prove the controlling idea.' With that said, be very clear and specific with your controlling idea. Do not offer any abstract ideas here.

Seoul is a great city to live in. (define great and prove to me that your definition and my definition are the same- as you know- I love to play the devil's advocate)

Seoul provides three key elements which improve a person's quality of life.
1) education 2) medical facilities 3) cultural facilities 4) restaurants 5) public transportation 6) Han River Park 7) shopping 8) do you see the difference?

2) Part of my rubric states, "The vocabulary used is rich and interesting." One thing I told my students in my Thursday classes was, "I can think of no more boring word than the word interesting."
Then I showed them the thesaurus section of the Merriam Webster dictionary site which offers alternative words for 'interesting.' http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interesting

I encourage you all to make use of the thesaurus. It can help make your writing riveting.

Write well my scribes and have a great weekend,

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