Exercise 1 in They Say I Say

a) A number of scientists suggest that there is little to no threat of Chemical X in the Ohio groundwater.

b) It has been common to most readers that novel X is one of the greatest books of the year.

c) Many Americans find football to be an exhilarating sport to watch.

d) It is said that in the classroom both male and female contribute equally in class discussion.

e) The movie X was said to be a thriller.

d) They Say I Say suggest that templates are the one of the best ways to get points across through writing.

My essay

When I'm writing an essay, I'm usually in my dorm room.  It's easier because it's more comfortable then sitting in a library.  I always use the keyboard when I'm writing because it's much quicker.  When I write I usually have my desk lamp on and I usually listen to some alternative music like Coldplay or something, so I can stay relaxed and keep my thoughts pouring out.  My strategy is to just write everything down and forget about grammar and sentence agreements.  Those can be fixed later.  I will always revise my essay once I'm done getting all of my thoughts out because it becomes much easier organizing the paragraphs.  My circumstances are to fully complete the essay before I take a break and go back to fix mistakes.  I've done workshops before.  In high school no one seemed to take it seriously so I really didn't believe my friend when he said my essay was amazing.  In college, I trusted my peers more because they put a lot more thought into looking at my paper.  Looking at other posts I noticed that people like to write their papers at their desks.  I'm pretty confident in my writing process.  Last semester I used the same strategies for each paper and it payed off.

A workshop draft is a rough draft with corrections on it.  It usually makes suggestions to the writer on how to make the paper better.

Its purpose is to improve the draft into a final paper.

The difference between a workshop draft and a final paper is that a workshop draft is not finished but has many corrections.  A final paper uses the corrections in order to improve.

I would tell the writer of Essay R to check over his grammar.  I would also tell him to add a thesis and add more resources.

Essay R

Well after reading this essay I would not give it a grade any higher than a D.  I really did not think it was that great.  When I'm reading an essay I think there should be a thesis in the introductory paragraph.  This essay doesn't really have one.  Also, if it's a research paper he should have more than one source.  How can I believe any of the information he gave me was credible?  It could all just be opinionated.  And even with his one source, it's from the Internet which is not always reliable.  I think this kid really needs to work on his writing and research abilities and realize that there is a lot more resources out there than just the Internet.  I think I might be too kind giving him the grade he got because he was not following what was asked of him.

Chapter 2h

1.)  The writer's purpose it to try and sway the reader into voting differently in the election.  His audience is targeted to college students.

2.)  I'm not really sure what genre this fits under.

3.)  There are many ways he could get his point across.  He could make a documentary, write a book, etc..

4)  There are many other types of audiences he can target such as the older generation, like our grandparents.  

5.)  If a teacher were to write analyze the article, she would probably teach a lesson to the readers.  If a scientist were to analyze the article, he would probably use a lot of data.