* Intro discussion

* Discuss revised paragraph

  (I should do a revision myself)

* Discuss papers submitted in discussion session

  (preview a few)

* Introduce beginning, middle, end

    -- do some in-class survey / voting to find out what people
       remember from sentences.

       (need to collect a few examples to use for this)

    -- hopefully, this will reveal the "stress position"

    -- we now have a couple of principles:

       (1) The beginning of the sentence (the "topic position") serves
           two reader expectations:
	   (a) what the story of the sentence is about
	   (b) links back to familiar information
       (2) The end of the sentence ("stress position")
           (a) what the reader will remember / take away
	   (b) leans forward into the next sentence or other bit of
	       writing.

       What about the middle?

       What about paragraphs?

* Introduce Gopen and Swan article

Assignment:

Should be two parts:

(1) some G&S like exercise(s)

    -- post an intelligent question or comment about G&S
       (either about the article or make a connection to something
       else (your own writing project, someone else's, some other
       advice about writing. etc.)
       
    -- respond to someone's question (if someone else has already
       responded, you have to say something different)

(2) Gear up for sharing writing

    -- submit your current draft.  If you do not have a draft, submit
       a page or so summarizing the work that you will be writing about.

    -- nominate a journal for your project, and submit a typical paper
       from that journal (give it your best shot; you can change your
       mind later)