Transcript ENGL 1302: Advanced College rhetoric

ENGL 1302: WEEK 7 (BRIEF
ASSIGNMENT 4)
SECTION 001 AND 006
MR. LABRIOLA
ROADMAP
• Questions/Problems
• Draft 1.1
• Synthesis
• Brief Assignment 4
• Class Group activity
QUESTIONS/PROBLEMS
• Any problems you found during your Lit Review?
• Most of you should have gotten your first reads back
• A good chunk also have their final grade
LITERATURE REVIEW
• Please come talk to me in my office hours or set up an appointment to talk
about your 1.1 draft if you have questions
• The biggest problems I saw:
• Not doing synthesis/too much summary
• Some summary/context is good
• Only talking about one article per paragraph
• Not using scholarly, academic journal articles
• You need to ask questions if you are confused
• You can definitely make major improvements for the 1.2 draft
USE YOUR TEXTBOOK
• This was on last
week’s PowerPoint,
but please use the
textbook and St.
Martin’s ehandbook
• You have assigned
readings every
week on
RaiderWriter
• Don’t make me start
making reading
quizzes
SYNTHESIS
• This is the most important part of your lit review
• Think back to BA2 and the T-Swift and Jay-Z exercise
• How do your articles connect?
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Do they agree/disagree?
Similar/Different?
• Example:
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Smith believes ________________ (Smith 210). In a similar article, Labriola agrees with the ideas
of Smith because _____________. Labriola also goes on to say ________ (Labriola 45). Together,
these articles focus on the problem of _______________. However, in Brown’s article, he disagrees
with Labriola and Smith. Brown’s research focuses on ____________________ (Brown 492).
BRIEF ASSIGNMENT 4 (SENTENCE-LEVEL REVISION)
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Objective: To practice revising the structure and language of your literature review
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Description: To complete this assignment, use the guidelines in Chapter 6 of First-Year Writing and
Chapters 40-43 of The St. Martin's Handbook to revise one substantial body paragraph (i.e. between 6
– 8 sentences in length) from your 1.1 draft. Please be sure to use a paragraph from the most recently
revised version of your 1.1 draft for this assignment. Consider matters of organization, language, word
choice, and grammar and mechanics as you revise. You will need to make significant revisions to your
original paragraph. Include both the original and the revised paragraphs. You will also need to include
1) a statement of your thesis, so that your instructor knows the context in which these paragraphs were
written, and 2) a paragraph evaluating the revisions you have made and their impact on the audience,
purpose, and meaning of your draft as a whole. After completing your revisions, be sure to integrate
your new paragraph into your working 1.2 draft.
Purpose: After you have written several drafts of an essay, one of the final steps of revision prior to a
last proofreading is to look closely at the sentence structure and language you have used to argue on
behalf of your claim. This assignment enables you to practice these revisions on a single paragraph
before working through the rest of your draft in the same way.
BRIEF ASSIGNMENT 4 (CONT)
• This is how you can format this assignment:
• Statement of your thesis
• (This way, the grader has some context as to what your topic is)
• Original Paragraph:
• Copy and paste original paragraph
• Revised Paragraph:
• Write revised version of the paragraph
• Evaluation:
• Paragraph evaluating the revisions you have made and their impact on the audience,
purpose, and meaning of your draft as a whole
GROUP ACTIVITY
• Take out the body paragraph you brought to class today
• Before getting into groups, write down your topic/thesis on your paragraph
• This way those who are reading it know the context
• Break up into groups of 2-3
• Give feedback on their body paragraphs
• What did they do well?
• What can they improve upon? (Synthesis? Connecting articles?)
QUESTIONS?
• BA4?
• Synthesis?
• Anything?
HOMEWORK DUE FOR 3/9
• Bring in an introduction AND another body paragraph to class
• We will do another peer review workshop
• By then, you’ll have an introduction, and two body paragraphs with comments for the 1.2
draft