How to become a part of the conversation
- We converse because we think what we know matters
- Effectiveness relies on how your contribution works with others
- Key moves:
o Explaining your position relative to others—agreeing, disagreeing, “yes, but…”
o Explaining your reason
o Offering something new to conversation
Subordination v. Coordination
- I thought the paper was good but it needs some work
o Uses coordination…equal importance between 2 independent clauses
o Job of the independent clause is to carry the main idea
o Dependent clause gives ‘bonus information’
o Put your point of emphasis in the independent clause
Comma-Splice run on sentence: joining independent clauses
- Comma with conjunction (and, but, for, so, yet): shows a close relationship
- Semi-colon: closely related
- Period: adds greater emphasis on each idea
- Colon or dashes: very close relationship in that one half defines the other
You captured a good amount of the detail of some of our technical conversations on this day, but didn’t cover the rest of what we were talking about in regards to the film (and esp. how the filmmakers’ use of evidence is something we could learn from)