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Starter n+1: Another Setup Task
Go and find your partner for today. This time, you should be paired with someone in the same ballpark as your topic (i.e. science with science). Share your thesis (or a copy) with your partner. Or if you want a paper copy for highlighting, first of all tell us, send it to Lori or Grayson. Analysis Framework Returns I told you you’d see this again… even if I am in control and can make it a self fulfilling prophecy. Remember long long ago to last week when we did an analysis framework? Good. Peer Review with Analysis Framework You will be following this handout with your partner. You will need a few highlighting colors. Step 1: A Highlight of your Paper Go through their part 3 and highlight the elements of their analysis. Use the handout for color recommendations. You’re going to need 5-6 colors. Step 2: Editor’s Commentary Now, once you’ve made their paper good and colorful, you’re going to need to give some feedback notes. First up is the general feedback. Overall, what do they need to do? Done well? Etc? See the handout for sentence starters to get you going. Step 3: Specific Suggestions Keep them commenting fingers warmed up, you’ve got more to write. Next up, you need 2 comments for specific suggestions to their paper. No rhetorical questions here. Step 4: Analysis Suggestions One more round of comments. You need to write 2 comments about their analysis sections. Luckily, you have colored this up like a rainbow. What do they need to add? What do they need to change? More context? More why sentences? Step 5: Pearl Clutching Return your colorful mess to its original author. Let them really drink in just how messy their hard work looks. Now, read over their comments, look around the highlights, and come up some actionable steps to be done for your writing. See handout for details. Step 6: Get Workin’ Use your suggestions and actionable steps to get revising. DUE DATES- ON TIME- HUMANITIES
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Starter - Divide to Conquer
Pull up your thesis document and a blank document. Copy and paste your section 2 into that new document. Share that new document with your partner below. Peer Critiques for Background Information Go and sit with your partner. With any luck, they’ll have absolutely no clue what your topic is about. This is good. You want a blank slate to see what you, the expert, are overlooking as obvious. Your Task Follow directions on this handout. Write notes on the same paper that you are reading this morning for your partner. Step 1: The Read. Read their background, make some notes. Refer to the handout for specifics here. Step 2: The connection. When you get to step 2, have your partner copy paste their intro section into your shared document. Then, continue to give them notes on that sheet. Again, refer to the handout for specific notes. Step 3: The Return. Take a gander at your partner’s notes. Then, add to this document with the next steps you need to follow as described in the handout. Back to Work You’ve got some editing to do. Revision Priorities for today…
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Starter- Thesis Statement + Research Question
On your draft, highlight your research question and thesis statement. Pass to your left. For the one you receive, in a comment on their draft, write the following.
Part 1 Peer Critiques Remind of critique norms- specific, helpful, and kind. List of critique qualities on the board. Get with your assigned groups. Trade papers (digitally, or have Lori print Part 1 of their paper). For each person:
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Day 1 Critique- Full Read Through Get with your partner. You are going to do a full read-through of their senior thesis. On their paper, I want you to mark the following things with comments:
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Title Page and Abstract Follow the example on these slides to create your title page. This is a formality for academic writing and needs to be done in the “because I said so” mold. As for the Abstract, follow that sheet. The gist is that an abstract is almost like a summary that addresses your question, what the research is, why it’s important, and what the conclusion is. It’s the executive summary, the spark notes if you will. If you’re wondering what the difference between an abstract and an intro is, you're asking the wrong question. Work Priorities, by Start of Class Friday:
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In Text Citation Review-Pop Quiz
Review quiz and correct as class. MLA Citations Use the MLA Cheat Sheet to perfect your citations. Call Lori or Grayson over if you want specific help. Don’t wait until the last minute to do MLA citations (especially in text ones), as this becomes more and more arduous of a time sink the longer you put it off. MLA Formatting By the end of the day, we will post an MLA formatting checklist, that will guide you step-by-step through formatting your rough draft correctly. You should plan on spending time tomorrow during off-campus time to complete this step. It’s fairly mindless, and can serve as a good break from writing! Work Priorities: by Wednesday at start of class I will have done:
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Erin CR Time Give Erin CR some feedback on our letter of rec process, so that we can make our systems even better! Starter 18: The Great Cut and Paste Race Your table group will be working together to pick the correct transition from a list of options for a given text. I stole this from a previous senior thesis. One of the transitions is from that paper. The rest I hastily made up inside 10 minutes. Choose wisely. Transitions Practice Individually Finally, you’re going to take some of your own writing and transition it properly. This sheet should look eerily familiar if you can remember last semester (however long ago that may or may not have been). Once you complete this, it’s time to get back to the grind. Work Priorities: by Tuesday at start of class I will have done:
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Starter 19: Analysis Framework Practice (make a link to your copy of this doc in your starters) Your writing task today is to take the setup that was given to you by this starter and write the analysis for the quote. This involves writing a what, why, and connections section. Use context in the quote for what, and make some educated guesses for the why and connections (don’t worry so much about being right here, worry about getting it based on context). Analysis Framework Assignment Now you get to do it with your own writing. Yay. This sheet has an exemplar version of the text you just wrote for the starter to get your ideas generating. Then, the final page is all about your paper. Before you move into writing time, take a hard look at some section of your part 3 and use this framework to improve your writing. Work Priorities, by Start of Class Friday:
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Starter 18: Dig back into your outline and find 2 quotes you need to bring into your paper. If you did the outline correctly, this should be as simple as glancing down the list and picking any entry.
SHOW GRAYSON OR LORI your two correctly set up quotes to move into writing time! Setting up Quotes Take a gander at this handout to be able to set up yer quotes. You need evidence, and being able to introduce it properly is going to be essential. Remember, you can use: the author says, a few times, but you’ve got to do more than that. Branch out, try to challenge yourself to set up quotes in a variety of ways. Work Priorities: by Wednesday at start of class I will have done:
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Starter 17: War of the Birds Take a quick read of this bit of Australian history and then answer the questions
By the start of class on TUESDAY:
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