Subject: plan for today's class
From: Brian Junker <brian@stat.cmu.edu>
Date: 1/28/2016 1:35 PM
To: Sam Adhikari <asamrach@andrew.cmu.edu>, Purvasha Chakravarti
<pchakrav@andrew.cmu.edu>, Maria Cuellar Correa
<mcuellar@andrew.cmu.edu>, Shannon Gallagher
<sgallagh@andrew.cmu.edu>, Liangyan Gui <lgui@andrew.cmu.edu>, Amanda
Luby <aluby@andrew.cmu.edu>, Francesca Matano
<fmatano@andrew.cmu.edu>, Brendan McVeigh <bmcveigh@andrew.cmu.edu>,
Josue Orellana Arreaga <juo@andrew.cmu.edu>, Taylor Pospisil
<tpospisi@andrew.cmu.edu>, Jining Qin <jiningq@andrew.cmu.edu>, Lee
Richardson <lrichard@andrew.cmu.edu>, Yuxiong Wang
<yuxiongw@andrew.cmu.edu>, Peter Elliot <pwelliot@andrew.cmu.edu>,
Beau Dabbs <bdabbs@andrew.cmu.edu>

Hi all,

I had occasion to edit some of the writing of Sam and Francesca, and
(with their permission) I will talk about some of my edits in class,
illustrating some points about structure and also about making a
smooth reading experience for the reader.  The nice part is they are
both pretty good writers, so the issues are relatively easy to isolate
and discuss.  If this is successful I might continue to talk about how
I would edit other classmembers' work in future classes.

I will make formal assignments (probably after class) for the weekend
as follows:

* There are a couple of "general guideline" style articles that I
  would like you to read, and probably comment on.

* I want each of you to think about what is the next writing task in
  your project.  Will it be revising the section(s) based on peer
  reviews that you get tomorrow?  Will it be working on a different
  section of the paper?  Writing a section for the first time?
  Whatever it is, I will want you to (a) work on that writing task
  over the weekend (at least 3 pp of new writing, at least 5 or 6 pp
  of revised writing) (b) submit the result to me on Monday so that I
  can arrange for peer reviews of it next week.

While you are doing that, I will be looking at the peer reviews you
complete tomorrow.

BTW, class may end early again today, which is fine.  I'm happy to
stick around and discuss, either individually or as a group, what we
have been doing (or will do) in class, problems or ideas or directions
in your own writing, etc.

best,

-BJ

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