For your third assignment: Angle of Vision

It's based on chapter five, so re-read that chapter in Allyn and Bacon's Guide to Writing if you need a refresher. Specifically, your assignment is to

(1) locate a research site with people in it: work, school, library, car wash, meeting, club, church, health club, and

(2) observe that site for at least a solid hour. You can break that down into several visits of 20 minutes each, or one single visit of 60+ minutes. You need to then

(3) take detailed, descriptive notes of everything you see. It's not uncommon to get 3-5 pages of notes from a single observation. Next, you should

(4) Expand those notes with even more descriptive detail, then

(5) write an essay in which you describe the scenario you witnessed, first with a negative angle of vision, then with a positive angle of vision. Again, refer to chapter five for numerous examples of this. Each description should be at least 250 words long. Finally,

(6) write a conclusion of 400 words or so, describing what you learned from writing from these two perspectives.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OBSERVATION NOTES TO CLASS

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