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Brannan: A Writer's Workshop
A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays
Bob Brannan, Johnson County Community College
Picturing Places

Writing On and Offline

These writing prompts are followed by text boxes for your input. If you are working online and your instructor has given you the go-ahead, you can e-mail your work to him or her by clicking the "E-mail Your Answers" button. You can also e-mail a copy to yourself as a record of your work. If you are working offline, you will have to copy your answers (CTRL-C on most systems) and paste them (CTRL-V) into a text document to retain a record of your work.



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Directions: Choose a hobby or interest that you might like to find out more about. Then, using the search engine of your choice, visit several websites that are related to your interest. Choose a site that you like and write a paragraph describing both the activity and the website to someone unfamiliar with both. What appeals to you about the activity? What makes the website fun, informative, and/or amusing to people who share your interest?

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Take a look at this picture. What sense impressions does it evoke in you? Besides sight, discuss as many of the senses as you can. Consider touch, hearing, smell, and taste.









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