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Here are some details about this week's punctuation activity with our Ten Sentences. Because this task is more complicated than some of the other task options, this one is worth TWO TASK credits. To earn credit, you need to participate in all three stages:

1. MONDAY (11/15). Bring to class a special version of your ten sentences in their rawest form.
   1. Remove all punctuation marks as well as the sentence numbers and any capital letters that might reveal sentence boundaries. Remove the hard returns between sentences so that the sentences are reduced to a block of text with nothing but spaces between the words.
   2. Trade passages with someone in class.
   IF YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR UNPUNCTUATED PASSAGE IN CLASS ON MONDAY, YOU CAN'T PARTICIPATE IN THIS TASK.

2. WEDNESDAY (11/17). Return passages with the sentences repunctuated.

3. FRIDAY (11/19). Compare the repunctuated passage to the author's original. Write up a brief commentary on the reader's effectiveness and apparent logic in making punctuation choices. Please note that the intent of this assignment is not to see if someone can guess how an author punctuated a passage but to compare two people's choices in punctuation. What can you infer from the differences?

Questions? Please ask.