Daily blog post 10/25/17

Today's class was one that involved a lot of discussion as a whole rather than in groups. We started off with questions based around our summer reading essay. It began with how to quote quotation; simply put, you just use commas in place of the the text's quotes within the actual quotes Example: "he said 'yes'".  Afterwards we discussed how to truncate or shorten your quotes. Throughout the essay there should be no block quotes. Rather off just use an ellipsis (...) to help provide evidence for your claim. Later Mr. Rivers stressed the importance of revision in just about all of our assignments, saying that through without revision your essay is just not as good. This idea has lot of real world applications as well, like when applying for a job. You can either use your resume from a year ago, or you can revise it to improve it and make yourself sound more appealing for the job. The class also discussed three main points towards revision: specificity, clarity, and analysis. We then watched a scene from The Office where Michael describes to his employees what had happened to Meredith (another employee, which Michael had recently hit with his car). When attempting to tell his employees Michael avoided the truth by not telling who had hit Meredith. Michael was not specified or clear when discussing the scenario, he didn't even say that he was the one driving rather just that he was in the car. One of the question Mr. Rivers had asked for the scene was whether or not Michael was lying. Our group decided since he wasn’t stating the whole truth it might as well have been a full lie. shortly after discussing the bell had rang and that was the end of that class.