ENGL 1302: WEEK 12 (REVISING FOR USE OF SOURCES)(ON OUR WAY TO THE 2.1 AND 2.2!)

SECTION 001 AND 006

MR. LABRIOLA

ROADMAP

• Looking ahead

• 2.1 drafts

• Let’s make an argument!

• Questions

LOOKING AHEAD

• Assignments Left:

• Brief Assignment 6

• 2 Peer Critiques

• 2.2 Draft

• Writing Review

2.1 DRAFTS

• How did the 2.1s go?

• Did the meetings help? (those of you who came to them)

• Not many people came to office hours

• 17 people emailed me late Thursday night/Friday morning

• I tried to get to all of them – I had a paper due myself

2.2 DRAFTS

• The 2.2 draft isn’t technically due until the start of May (May 1st)

• That may seem like a lot of time (pun intended)

• Start revising now

• Come to my office hours/make an appointment

• Let’s work on it together!

2.1 DRAFTS

• What questions do you have about the 2.1?

LET’S MAKE AN ARGUMENT!

• We can write example paragraphs/create an outline together as a class

INTRODUCTION• What do we need in an introduction paragraph for the 2.2?

• Hook – grab reader’s attention

• Shocking statistics?

• Thesis statement• State the problem

• Why this problem should be fixed

• Background information

• Credibility (if you have any)

• Narrow the focus

• Discuss what you’re NOT going to cover

• Preview of what youre going to talk about

• Facts about topic (general)

• Subtopics – the points you’re going to make

BODY PARAGRAPHS• What do we need in the body paragraphs FOR our argument?

• Topic sentence

• State the main point of the paragraph

• Providing more information

• Tie paragraph back to thesis

• Evidence and commentary

• Evidence - Direct quotes, statistics, sources

• Commentary - Expanding upon the evidence

• Personal experience

• Expand/use it to tie into the evidence you’ve given

• Transition sentence/Concluding sentence

COUNTERARGUMENT

• What do we need in the body paragraphs AGAINST our argument (counterargument)?

• Topic sentence

• What is the counterargument?

• Claims/why are they opposed?• Supporting with evidence

• Sources, statistics

• Relate the claims to the points you’ve made

• Refute them

• Why is your argument still better?

CONCLUSION•Restate thesis

•Re-iterate the argument/claims

•Relate it to today/why is topic important• Implications of your argument

• Solutions?

• Counterargument

• Refute

CONCLUSION

• What do we need in our conclusion paragraph?

• Restate the thesis

• Sum up your arguments

• Address the counterargument

• Restate the call for action

QUESTIONS?