EDRG 3344 T/R Blog #3

1) Explain writing.

Writing is a PROCESS. It consists of 5 steps. These steps are Pre-writing, Drafting, Revising, Editing and Publishing. Pre-writing is the process of brainstorming. Drafting is creating an outline and a rough draft. Revising is adding and deleting sections of your rough draft along with working on elaboration and sentence structure. Editing is looking for conventional errors like capitalization and spelling errors. Revising and Editing are often confused with eachother. The final step is Publishing which is exactly what it says, turning in your final draft or displaying it for everyone to see.

2) Final Draft of in-class story.

The year is 1965 and it is the era of the Hollywood Starlett and the Debonair hollywood gentleman. It is the time of the comedy variety shows of Johnny Carson and Dean Martin. The crooning of Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby.

It was May and I was spending the week with a girlfriend of mine in New York. She lived on the Lower East Side and it was the first time in over a year I had seen her. She had the whole week planned out and one of the many things we were going to do was go to a taping of the Dean Martin Show. She had bought the tickets as soon as she found out Gene Kelly would be a guest. I am a huge fan of Gene Kelly. I loved him in Singin' in the Rain and An American in Paris. This was one of the many reason's she bought the tickets.

We spent 2 hours getting ready for the taping and headed to the studio where it was being taped. We knew we were in for a night of hilarity and most likely peeing in our pants, or in this case skirts. Just as we had expected it was hilarious. Dean sang as always, Gene did a song from Singin' in the Rain and then they sang a duet. After the end of the show we hung out for a while in hopes of getting some autographs and we did. Gene and Dean signed our books for us and thanked us for coming. We were two of the lucky few who stayed after and got their autographs.

At the end of the week I flew home. I was sad to leave but needed to return for the start of school. On my flight home i stared at my autographs and remembered the amazing night we had. It was the best day of my life.