Last Week to Revise!

Announcements

1. SPAM 3 form is due WEDNESDAY at 3:30 pm.  Don't forget to fill out your form after the meeting!
2. No more library days! But you can still go in your free time.
3. I'm checking correctly-formatted title pages with abstracts by the end of class on Tuesday to make sure you've got it.

​Writing Workshop #1: MLA Formatting Checklist

• Let's skim through this as a class
• What questions do you have?
• Double check your own thesis for all these formatting items!

Writing Workshop #2: Writing an abstract

• Read the above linked document on how to write an abstract
• Write a draft of your abstract and show it to me by the end of class on Tuesday.  I will also want to see a complete title page, correctly formatted, by then. 

Thesis Revision
Stuck?  Go back and revise for the following:
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PHASE 1: Most Important

1. Structural Changes:  Reorganization sections, resequence
2. Additions/Expansion: Add additional evidence/research, expand on your analysis, add new arguments

PHASE 2: Cohesion and Sentence Level (leave a few days for this)

1. Cohesion:  In your analysis of evidence, make sure that you are building on and relating to earlier points and arguments.  In your topics and transitions, make sure you are frequently referencing how this point helps to prove your thesis.
2. Transitions:  Make sure you have have them, and that they connect paragraphs and sections cleanly.
3. Quote Setup/Follow Up:  Make sure that all your quotes have a setup that gives necessary context, and a follow up that explains the quote, and clearly connects that particular quote to your argument.
4. Sentence Level:  Check for passive voice and focus, sentence variety (mix of long and short sentences).
5. Hemingway Editor:  This is a GREAT resource for sentence level revision!  You still need to use your brain, but this can really help you identify sentence level issues.

PHASE 3:  Proofreading (leave a day for this)

1. Quote setup punctuation
2. MLA in-text citations
3. Punctuation/spelling/contractions
4. Works Cited (formatting and alphabetize)
5. MLA Formatting
6. Write your abstract
7. READ IT OUT LOUD to catch flow and proofreading issues.

HOMEWORK:

1. Work on revising your Senior Thesis!  FINAL DRAFT is due Monday, March 11 at the START OF CLASS.  It should be shared with me and your Senior Project Advisor, and I want one PRINTED copy in my inbox at this time as well.