ENG 208 FALL 2016Wed. Nov. 16, Week 12-2

"Getting off to a good start can make or break you, which is why your introduction is so important. It must be both respectful of the audience...

Think about throwing a dinner party: Your guests are the audience. You plan a menu and set the table. Before you serve the entrée you serve an appetizer and introduce those who are meeting for the first time. Your introduction should put your guests on common ground-at ease with each other-before the main course, your story, is served.

from Colorado State Writing Guide

Who are your guests?Imagine your intended audience. List:

- Age.- Where are they sitting right now? What room, what state, what country?- What else do they read?- Who do they turn to for information?- What is their taste in entertainment?

________________________________________Imagine what your reader needs to know. Did you:- Define terms?- Put subculture within context of larger culture?- Point out any narrative tension between the

subculture and the larger culture? (Think of the ways the writers of our

Autoethnography sample readings did this.)

Compose an opening paragraph or two that will draw your ideal audience into your piece.

Compose a paragraph naming and contextualizing your subculture.

Small Groups from Monday.

Read each others' drafts, including our in-class writing from today.

VERBALLY RESPOND TO EACH WRITER:1:The subculture you're writing about is...

2: I would define that subculture as...

3:What I'd really like to know is...