Introduction To The Writing Process
ESL 109
Unit: Introduction to the Writing Process
Activity 2: "Friends, Good Friends, and Such Good Friends"
Procedure
1. Pre-Reading: Skimming and scanning. What are the seven categories of friends that the author mentions?
3 minutes
2. Pre-Reading: Read the first 3 paragraphs. Which paragraphs contain the introduction? What kind of information is included in the introduction? ? What is the main idea (thesis) of this article?
5 minutes
3. Pre-Reading: Look at the end of the article. Where do you think the conclusion starts? Hint: the first sentence of the conclusion summarizes the main idea.
5 minutes
4. Reading: Read the article. …show more content…
It's another kind of pleasure--playing wise mother to a questing younger person. It's another very lovely kind of friendship.
23 6. Part-of-a-couple friends. Some of the women we call our friends we never see alone--we see them as part of a couple at couples' parties. And though we share interests in many things and respect each other's views, we aren't moved to deepen the relationship. Whatever the reason, a lack of time or--and this is more likely--a lack of chemistry, our friendship remains in the context of a croup. But the fact that our feeling on seeing each other is always, "I'm so glad she's here" and the fact that we spend half the evening talking together says that this too, its own, way, counts as a friendship.
24 (Other part-of-a-couple friends are the friends that came with the marriage, and some of these are friends we could live without. But sometimes, alas, she married our husband's best friend; and sometimes, alas, she is our husband's best friend. And so we find ourselves dealing with her, somewhat against our will, in a spirit our chat I'll call reluctant
Unit: Introduction to the Writing Process
Activity 2: "Friends, Good Friends, and Such Good Friends"
Procedure
1. Pre-Reading: Skimming and scanning. What are the seven categories of friends that the author mentions?
3 minutes
2. Pre-Reading: Read the first 3 paragraphs. Which paragraphs contain the introduction? What kind of information is included in the introduction? ? What is the main idea (thesis) of this article?
5 minutes
3. Pre-Reading: Look at the end of the article. Where do you think the conclusion starts? Hint: the first sentence of the conclusion summarizes the main idea.
5 minutes
4. Reading: Read the article. …show more content…
It's another kind of pleasure--playing wise mother to a questing younger person. It's another very lovely kind of friendship.
23 6. Part-of-a-couple friends. Some of the women we call our friends we never see alone--we see them as part of a couple at couples' parties. And though we share interests in many things and respect each other's views, we aren't moved to deepen the relationship. Whatever the reason, a lack of time or--and this is more likely--a lack of chemistry, our friendship remains in the context of a croup. But the fact that our feeling on seeing each other is always, "I'm so glad she's here" and the fact that we spend half the evening talking together says that this too, its own, way, counts as a friendship.
24 (Other part-of-a-couple friends are the friends that came with the marriage, and some of these are friends we could live without. But sometimes, alas, she married our husband's best friend; and sometimes, alas, she is our husband's best friend. And so we find ourselves dealing with her, somewhat against our will, in a spirit our chat I'll call reluctant