Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Final Drafts Due Thursday


On Thursday, we'll upload your final drafts to Turnitin.com, and you'll be finished! I've been impressed by the effort many of you have made to interpret a major work. Keep up your focus for a few more days, and you'll enjoy a well-earned break.

Today's writer's workshop will focus on revising your body paragraphs using these tips we discussed last week. Please complete the following:

A) You need to ask a partner to read and give feedback on one of your body paragraphs using the following:

1) After reading the first sentence, the controlling idea of the paragraph is going to be _______________ (thread + criteria).
2) An implicit or explicit reference to the text that related well to the controlling idea was _____________.
3)  An implicit or explicit reference to the text that you might want to revise is ______________________.
4)  In my opinion, your commentary showed your thinking on the topic by ________________________.

B)  Format your paper for MLA.  Read "General Guidelines," "Formatting the First Page of Your Paper," and "Section Headings" HERE.  For your section headings, divide your paper into 1, 2, 3 and give titles for each thread-related criteria.  For example, you might have 1. Social and Historical Values Towards Economic Stratification Embodied in The Great Gatsby

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