Write a paragraph summarizing the topic of your research project. Discuss its proposed content, organization, divisions, and your part in it.
Your paragraph should have the following content in the order listed:
1. The topic of the research project,
2. Any explanation required to clarify and/ or refine and narrow the focus of the topic,
3. The persuasive/ argumentative purpose of the project,
4. Division into parts (preliminarily),
6. The way your division helps fulfill the purpose, and
7. An example or detail that illustrates how your part fulfills the purpose. (Don't leave this part out. Show me that you've done at least some preliminary research.)
Blog the paragraph by Tuesday at 7 PM. Bring a copy to class on Wednesday.
Monday, October 24, 2016
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
PA#13: Body paragraph for WA#4
For Friday, 10/7, choose one of the introductory paragraphs you have written for WA#4 and write on of the body paragraphs.
Please have it posted below by 5 PM on Thursday, 10/6.
Please have it posted below by 5 PM on Thursday, 10/6.
Monday, October 3, 2016
PA#12: Introductory paragraph with hook
Write the introductory to an essay in fulfillment of WA#4, the single source essay. You'll find the assignment on pp. 191 - 92 of WFS. (Note that I'm asking you to write at least 750 words, not the 500 - 600 specified in WFS.)
You have already written such an introduction on Singleton's essay. Thus, this time, please choose one of the other essays we discussed in class.
The paragraph should follow the following structure:
1. "Hook" your reader
2. Provide a bridge from the hook to the main argument of the essay.
2. Summarize the main argument. Don't forget to work in Wise's full name and the title of the essay. A typical template for that first sentence might be as follows. In [title of the essay], [author's full name] [verb from the list in TSIS] that [the author's main argument/ thesis].
3. Summarize briefly the supporting arguments, each in their turn. Exclude examples and details for now. Just summarize the main supporting arguments. Use transitions to indicate the flow of the argument and the fact that Singleton and not you is arguing. Some of you spent far too much time here when you wrote the Singleton introduction. Keep it brief.
Here, you'll need to understand the underlying organizational principle of the essay. Writers don't always make them obvious. Use your understanding of that organizational principle to structure your summary.
4. State the underlying principle present in the essay -- the idea that makes the argument go. You can think of it as your or Wise's thesis, but it is often unstated. Think of it as the idea that you will either defend or refute in subsequent paragraphs in the body of an essay that follows this introductory summary.
5. Finally, state your point of view as a response to Singleton's point of view. You will either be defending, refuting, or finding some middle ground.
You have already written such an introduction on Singleton's essay. Thus, this time, please choose one of the other essays we discussed in class.
The paragraph should follow the following structure:
1. "Hook" your reader
2. Provide a bridge from the hook to the main argument of the essay.
2. Summarize the main argument. Don't forget to work in Wise's full name and the title of the essay. A typical template for that first sentence might be as follows. In [title of the essay], [author's full name] [verb from the list in TSIS] that [the author's main argument/ thesis].
3. Summarize briefly the supporting arguments, each in their turn. Exclude examples and details for now. Just summarize the main supporting arguments. Use transitions to indicate the flow of the argument and the fact that Singleton and not you is arguing. Some of you spent far too much time here when you wrote the Singleton introduction. Keep it brief.
Here, you'll need to understand the underlying organizational principle of the essay. Writers don't always make them obvious. Use your understanding of that organizational principle to structure your summary.
4. State the underlying principle present in the essay -- the idea that makes the argument go. You can think of it as your or Wise's thesis, but it is often unstated. Think of it as the idea that you will either defend or refute in subsequent paragraphs in the body of an essay that follows this introductory summary.
5. Finally, state your point of view as a response to Singleton's point of view. You will either be defending, refuting, or finding some middle ground.
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