In-class exercise: Style and Fluency

Translate your prose into lines of verse

Engl 4057/5057 ETSU, O'Donnell, Weds Feb 1, 2012

(O'Donnell, ETSU, First-year composition course materials)

1. In the essay you plan to turn in today, identify a paragraph, or portion of a paragraph, that you think is particularly fluent/ musical.

2. Transcribe that passage into your notebook, as lines of verse and stanzas. Feel free to modify the passage, as you transcribe it, if you feel some changes will make it flow better.

3. Be prepared to present your verse to the class, using the "doc cam."