The One with the Abstract (shout out to "Friends"....and Amanda)

Announcements

1. SPAM 3 form is due WEDNESDAY at 3:30 pm. If submitting on Wednesday, you need to take a photo and email me the photo for evidence of completion as I won't be here Wednesday-Friday of this week. REMEMBER to complete the REFLECTION too!
2. No more library days! But you can still go in your free time.
3.  I will be gone Wed-Friday. I know that's not ideal but the safety of the students and co-leaders on my Osprey Week trip depend upon it as I need to go recon our route and make sure no one will die.  Plus I just like saying I'm going to recon something. It makes me feel like a spy or CIA agent.  (If I hadn't become a teacher....Agent Carruthless). This means you need to conference with me TODAY or TOMORROW if you are concerned about your final draft.  ALSO, I will allow students to submit final drafts on Tuesday 3/12 IF they have pressing questions about argumentation/content NOT grammar/formatting that couldn't have been addressed before I left and needed to be addressed before you can finalize your thesis for the deadline.  SO, if you are in that boat, you need to email me NO LATER than Saturday at midnight. I will NOT allow extensions for anything else on this final thesis. Questions? Ask them now.
4. I'm checking correctly-formatted title pages with abstracts by the end of class on Tuesday to make sure y'all 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.