Importance Paragraph Checkpoint due Friday, 3/6

Importance Thinking Activity Example

Importance Paragraph Example

Practice Synthesis

2009 Practice Synthesis Documents

Importance Quotation/Citation Outline Due Feb 28

You will be turning in two checkpoints on this day, but don't worry:  you've essentially already done one of them.

The first one is to submit your research quotations.  You will list off your minimum of three sources, then include six quotations that you think will support your importance claim.

The second one is to choose from these and your observation quotations and create a citation outline.  This is essentially your quotation finalists--the ones that are most likely to appear in your paper.

The only weird thing is that I'd like your citation outline to come first in the document, followed by your importance research quotations.    The document here should show you about how this will look.

Due Tuesday

Today we discussed the concept of your research paper's importance by looking at the last half of the research paper slideshow that was previously posted.  Your next deadline with be two weeks from today.

Please read the Margolis essay that I handed out in class today and mark for comprehension.  Marking for comprehension (as opposed to marking for analysis) just focuses on writing down the main ideas of what your author is saying,   A PDF version is available here.

We discussed when reading academic writing how important it is to

1.  Look up new vocabulary

2.  Pay attention to complicated sentences like periodic sentences, confusing antecedents, and contrasting transition words.

3.  Write down a summary of the articles main ideas or assertions

4.  Look for quotations that support your importance idea.  For this article, we are looking for quotation to support my importance:  Twain criticizes the continued mistreatment of African American.

5.  Use the article to get ideas about what other authors you might want to research.

Please bring your marked text to class on Tuesday.  You can also begin the process of reading articles on JSTOR that will help you support your importance idea.

Style Revisions

Here is a writing sample that really needs some help!

Style Revision Resources

Uses of "To Be"
Style Considerations

Observation Paragraph Checkpoint due Friday, 2/14

Your first Observation Paragraph is due. Please read the information on writing your observation paragraph here. Note again the Google docs did not allow me to preserve the formatting, so it's not in perfect MLA style, but it's pretty close.

Please make sure to be applying all polishing and style considerations.

Also, make sure you format this paragraph using MLA style. A powerpoint is available here.

Reading due Monday

Please read the Jacob Riis excerpt from your white book (870-874--I think).

Observation Quotations due Friday, 2/7

Please submit your observation notecards to Turnitin by Friday, 2/7 at 7:30 a.m.  You will not need to provide a paper copy.  Remember, you will need to find quotations from your text that will clearly allow you to support (prove) your observation claim.

Information and kind of a template are available here.