ENGLISH 0950

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2006

AGENDA:

1.) Returns

2.) Attendance

3.) Collect Extra Credit Option

4.) Collect Essay #3 Peer Review Forms / OR on Monday

5.) Schedule = Today / Monday / Wednesday / Monday Final Exam Day: 800-200 / 330-600

6.) THESIS + FORECAST -- Demonstration on Overheads

7.) INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPHS

• Opener / Lead
• Thesis
• Forecast -- is this needed?

8.) CONCLUSION PARAGRAPHS

• Standard / Restate Thesis and Main Points
• Expand your paper to a “bigger idea”
• Get your readers to think beyond your paper
• Pick 1-2 Lessons and/or Connections / Connect to your life or to someone you know
• Evaluate whether or not you got something out of the stories
• A problem in society to be solved
• Evaluate the stories and/or recommend the stories to someone else

9.) TITLES

• Your Title -- no special formatting
• Book Titles -- underlined
• Story Titles -- quoted
• Correct capitalization!

10.) SHOW PAPER FORMATTING

11.) SHOW WORK CITED PAGE FORMATTING

12.) VARIATIONS in Introducing Stories -- e.g. “In … “story” ….

13.) ACCURACY IN QUOTATIONS

14.) ELLIPSES

• before and after a quote = not needed
• in the middle of a quote = needed

15.) AUTHORS do NOT = Narrators (“I”) -- and -- McCabe is NOT Sobel

16.) HOW MANY QUOTES DO WE NEED?

17.) I DO EXPECT TO SEE ( ) CITATIONS

18.) Differences between AMONG and BETWEEN

19.) ASSUME YOUR AUDIENCE HAS READ THE STORIES

• You do NOT have to retell the stories
• You DO have to explain examples and details and your interpretation of these examples and details

20.) QUESTIONS?

21.) Almost-Final Draft of Essay #3 Due Monday

22.) Dismiss