Rough Drafts DUE...Let's Peer Critique!

Starter: Format your title page

• Follow the above guidelines for title page formatting.
• Don't worry about an abstract for now! We'll do that later next week.

Schedule SPAM 3 

• Senior Project Advisor Letter 3:  This letter is a guide to asking for your final meeting, focusing on feedback to your thesis draft.
• SPAM Form 3:  Make sure you bring this to SPAM 3!  It will guide your conversation about your rough draft!
• SPAM form 3 is due Wednesday, March 6th by 3:30 pm

The WHOPPER Peer Critique Protocol and groups

• I'm launching the WHOPPER peer critique process today. You'll need to schedule your critiques sometime between now and  the end of class on Thursday. 
• As a reminder, I am not giving feedback on your entire rough draft. You can conference with me for specific questions on specific sections of your essay and you’ll be able to refine FINAL thesis after you get your grade back. THUS, peer critiques are super important as are meetings with you SPAs.

NOTE:  Writing comments is NOT sufficient for this!  Make sure that your group meets and runs the protocol for every paper!

Thesis Revision
Stuck?  Go back and revise for the following:

1. Add evidence, do additional research as needed
2. Re-organize to improve logical flow and argumentation
3. If you're brain dead, do something simple and rote like MLA formatting
4. Write your abstract
5. Complete your MLA Works Cited (remember to alphabetize and format with indents correctly!)
6. Check all of your MLA in-text citations for punctuation and formatting
7. Revise all your transitions to make them more fluid and connective
8. Check to make sure that all of your sections and sub-sections are clearly connected back to your thesis and research question
9. Check to make sure that each quote is set up correctly, and has at least one follow-up sentence explaining the quote
10. Read your paper OUT LOUD to catch proofreading errors...then fix them!

HOMEWORK:  Duh, revise your thesis.  :)