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Personal Writing Assignment #3Write as close to a page as you can (no more than two pages) on lined paper, with a pencil or pen. TopicTake one of the “too general” topics below, and make a very specific topic that is going to be mainly about you and your life: Unfairness, Fear, Joy (for example, you could turn “Fear” into “My Hospital Visit” Or “Joy” into “My Favourite Things About Hockey”) ParagraphsYou will have at least three paragraphs. Paragraphs are usually between one and five sentences in length. Anything much longer than five sentences “loses” your reader. You need a new paragraph every time:Someone new enters the story/anecdote/discussionThe story or discussion shifts to a new placeSome time has gone by (like, you’re telling about an event, and start a new paragraph when you wake up the next day)Anything happens SUDDENLY. You can’t start a sentence with the word “Suddenly” (or “All of a sudden,”) without starting a new paragraph.So, if you are writing about a family trip, start a new paragraph for each new town and/or day. If you are talking about something electronic that you are hoping to buy, put each feature the device has in a new paragraph. If you are writing about games for the Nintendo 64, each game (or each kind of game) will get its own paragraph. InstructionsWrite this up, doing the best job you can of spelling and capitals, and using paragraphs frequently. Here are the steps: Bring it to class for a peer to edit, on Friday September 12th. Follow peer edit suggestions, unless you think they’re wrong, in which case get me to settle the discussionType it into Microsoft Word.Format it. Follow Format #3: Internet Style sheet which is next after the Comprehension Test on the next page.Email this assignment to mike.moore@ucdsb.on.ca by the marking deadline (Tuesday September 16th), If you meet that deadline, I will go through your emailed document and put electronic comments on it in Word, and then email it back to you You will fix up, and print it to go in your Exam Exemption duotang.Note that steps 1-8 are 25% of this assignment.Important: write like you (smart, interesting you). Nothing silly. Nothing boring.Peer Editing Log: Personal Writing #3Fill this out and keep it in your own binder. It should not go with the work you edited. You are the editor, so keep it in your own book.Date: ___________Name of person editing the work (me):_______________________________Name of person whose work I edited:_______________________________Number of missing capitals I pointed out: ____Number of places I thought a new paragraph should have begun: ____Number of commas that I thought should be a period: ____Number of missing question marks: ____Number of wording problems I pointed out: ____Format #3: Internet StyleThe title really ought to stand out, and be much larger than the regular text of the work. I like Calibri size 24 for it, and Calibri size 18 for headings.Between the title and your name, do a dividing line. Press [Enter] after your title, then press the [underscore] key ___ three times and press [Enter] again. It will make one for you.Size 10 font for the body text (everything but the title.) For Internet content, use a sans serif font like Lucinda Console, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial or Calibri (rather than a serif font like Times New Roman, as you would for paper-based work). Facebook uses a font most like Tahoma size 10Put your name under that dividing line, in size 10.Single-spacing.Graphics. People expect colour, logos and graphics decorating all web content. So do at least one picture. To control where the pictures go, you can insert/draw a “text box” and insert the picture into that. Then you can format the text box to have no black border, and make the body text “wrap” around it, instead of being covered by the picture. “Tight” or “Square” are good choices for text wrapping options.3371850544195Paragraphs are usually not left justified (align left), but are instead “full justified” (Justify) to make them straight down the right margin as well as the left. This is done by adding random spaces into the line. The full justify button is the fourth one, to the right of align left, centre and align right. Use many, many paragraphs, divided up into sections of paragraph groups. Because you can scroll down, there are usually no pages. If a block of text is too large, people won’t read it. Breaking your work up into smaller blocks makes it more comfortable to read.Bold headings. Because there are so many paragraphs, and no chapters or pages, things are instead broken up by trying to make a bold heading every four or five paragraph to divide things up nicely. The bold heading must be either in bold, or more often, should contrast by being bigger and in a contrasting font and/or colour. Headings must summarize what is in the paragraphs under it. The bold heading should be a size or two smaller than the big heading at the top of the page. This is why I have used size 18.No indenting for paragraphs. Instead, “line breaks” (entire lines of empty space) are used. This is also called “block formatting” because your paragraphs look like blocks of text. On a screen, we can scroll, and aren’t worried about wasting paper. To set Word up to put a line break automatically every time you press enter (start a new paragraph), unclick the box here and make sure there’s a 6 in the box above, like this: 171767578740 ................
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