Sunday, June 7, 2009

Day Three Class Notes

Housekeeping: Did everyone get registered with Wikipedia?

Sample paragraphs from the Practice Analytical Paragraph Discussion for the analytical paragraph structure and discuss. (35 minutes total)

Based on class discussion, make changes to your post in the Practice Analytical Paragraph Discussion using the Edit function in D2L.
--Questions about analytical paragraph structure?

Prewriting (20 minutes)--Explore a position regarding Wikipedia.

Ex: As we move from seeing Wikipedia as only a resource to an online
intellectual community, students are more than ready to accompany us.

Ex: Wikipedia is an excellent place to start research.

Topic and Comment: Arguable? Focused?
Practice writing thesis statements.

Share with one other person.
-Can you see the topic and comment clearly?
-Is this an arguable statement?
-Is it focused?
-Write thesis statements on white board and discuss/revise as class

If time allows - University of North Carolina thesis statements

If time allows - MLA--introducing signal phrases, punctuation, and in-text citations.

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