Third Essay: University Life - A Reminder

Dear Writing Studio participants (Writing III, §§ 1a and 1c):

There were quite a few students absent today, so I have decided to post this reminder. Your third essays are due by Sunday, May 18, 2008 (Course Calendar).

You should:

• Focus on a singular aspect of university life (Writing Studio Wiki, Major assignments, click through § 1.5) with which you are already quite familiar.

• Organize your own ideas into five or more ¶¶ (paragraphs), each five or more sentences in length, including:

• an introduction,
• body paragraphs (3+), and
• a conclusion; and

• Extend it to 350+ words in length overall.

Brainstorming and collecting your ideas in a mind map or an outline is a good way to start, or to refresh or reinforce your thinking if you've already tried free-writing. For organizational ideas, please review the Five Paragraph Essay presentations that you viewed among other writing resources (Writing Studio Wiki, click through § 6.4) a couple of weeks ago.

Please remember that you must label this essay on university life, like all of your essays for Writing III and IV, with the label "essays" (plural, without quotations marks). Then, if you wish, you also may label it with other labels that you are likely to use again. Campus, lifestyles, students, and university are some other possible labels that spring to mind.

Finally, photos would be nice, too. However, you should post nothing too personal or private for anyone in the world to see (administrators, parents, teachers...), and should ask permission from anyone recognizable in the photos before posting them on your blog.

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