Tuesday, 2/21: Peer Critiques and Thesis Refinements

Class Biz

• Week 8 Schedule, Objectives and Benchmarks
• All of this week's workshops are linked on the Senior Project page under Week 8 Objectives!
• Library day on Wednesday!
• SPAM 3 forms are due Wednesday at 3:30 pm
• TED Talk Schedule (mark your calendars!)

Writing Workshops:  Sentence Focus and Passive Voice + Title Page Formatting

Helpful Formatting Documents (Permanently linked on the Senior Project page)

• Title Page:  All you need to know about the Title Page
• MLA Formatting Checklist:   For final formatting of your paper, including font, margins, indentations, quote formatting, etc., go here.
• MLA Sample Essay:  See this for a helpful example + guidelines of how to format an MLA style essay.
• MLA In-Text Citations:  See this for a quick guide to MLA in-text citations.  For situations that aren't covered here, go HERE.
• MLA Formatting Checklist:   For final formatting of your paper, including font, margins, indentations, quote formatting, etc., go here.
• MLA Sample Essay:  See this for a helpful example + guidelines of how to format an MLA style essay.
• MLA In-Text Citations:  See this for a quick guide to MLA in-text citations.  For situations that aren't covered here, go HERE.

Peer Critiques!  Do them if you scheduled them today

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

1. If you're brain dead, do something simple and rote like MLA formatting
2. Complete your MLA Bibliography
3. Check all of your MLA in-text citations
4. Revise all your transitions to make them more fluid and connective
5. Check to make sure that all of your sections and sub-sections are clearly connected back to your thesis and research question
6. Check to make sure that each quote is set up correctly, and has at least one follow-up sentence explaining the quote
7. Read your paper OUT LOUD to catch proofreading errors...then fix them!

HOMEWORK:

1. Work on revising your Senior Thesis!  FINAL DRAFT is due Monday, February 27 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.