Activity 1: Analyzing Verb Use in Context Directions: This activity will help familiarize you with professional writers'
use of verbs. Visit any or all of the following sites and locate an essay
that interests you. The
New York Times Magazine The Atlantic Monthly Harper's Salon Magazine New Scientist The
Smithsonian Study your essay giving special attention to verb choice, tense, helping
verbs, and verbals. How does the writer you've chosen employ verbs? What
work do they do? Do this use of verbs have anything to do with your interest
in the piece?
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