Welcome to AEP Reading and Writing 6.

Welcome to term 1 of 2010, and to the level 6 AEP Reading and Writing class.

If you have already had a look through Quest 3 reading and Writing [Quest], you will have noticed that every chapter includes two types of writing exercise: a response writing activity and an academic writing assignment. For example, in chapter 5, "The Nature of Poetry", the response writing is exercise F. on page 183, and the academic writing is Part 5, on pages 188 to 192 (Hartmann & Blass, 2007). Hartmann and Blass think that both sorts of writing are important; since I agree with them, we will be doing both on a regular basis. In fact, we will aim to do both a little more often than the one of each per chapter that Quest asks for.

The academic writing exercises are fairly straight forward, and we will do the preparation necessary for those as we come to them. This blog is where we will do the less formal response writings. In case you are new to blogging, don't worry. Once you've joined our class blog and written your first post, it will be easy. The instructions that Hartmann and Blass provide in exercise F. on page 183 give a fairly clear idea of what response writing is all about, as well as how to do it, including how not to do it, although we might change that a little for some of our response writings.

Just as we will be writing more than is included in the chapters of Quest, so too will we be reading outside of Quest. And having read something, we want to share our ideas about it, so that will also be a source of topics to write about, both here and in academic writing assignments.

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References

Hartmann, P. & Blass, L. (2007). Quest 3 Reading and Writing (2nd. ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.