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Penguin pgs. 68-113, A&B 23.1, 23.2, 23.3 (pgs.461-467)

This reading talks about how to cite all different kinds of sources and information in your paper in MLA format. For in-text citations there is the parenthetical method and the attributive tag method. The parenthetical method is where you place the author’s last name and the page number in parenthesis immediately after the material being used. The attributive tag method is where you place those items at the beginning of the source material. It also mentions how to do your works cited list in MLA. Since there are so many different sources and information you could want to put in your paper, there are just as many ways to put those in your paper. Each type of source or quote, has at least 1 separate way to cite it from the last. Websites, newspapers, books, magazines, those are all cited in completely different ways, but somehow also similar. A tool in this reading I will use is all of it. I am very horrible when it comes to citing because it confuses me and I never do it right. I will definitely be using this book and the tools in it to help me remember how to cite my sources the right way.

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A&B 17.5, 17.6, pgs. 549-552, chart on 558

This reading talks about how it is necessary to have a clear topic sentence for each paragraph you are writing. You also should place these topic sentences at the beginning of the paragraph, which is right where the reader will be looking; so give them what they are looking for. Even when you think your topic sentence and paragraph are perfect, you should revise them. It can always improve, and you should always be thinking of ways to do so. Sometimes your topic sentence can make sense to you, but not to another reader. You should have a peer review it, just to make sure you are not the only one who makes sense of your writing. It is also very important to link all of your information together so that it makes sense, with good transition words and sentences. Knowing how to quote correctly and efficiently is something you need to know how to do to have a good and working paper. A skill I will use in my paper is to learn how to quote easier. I am not very good with quoting in my papers, specifically block quotes. There are different ways to quote different things and I need to learn how to do that for future papers.

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A&B 1.1, A&B 20.1

This reading talks about how it is so important to have a question to fuel your writing. Specifically, you need an open-ended question with multiple viewpoints to write about. It keeps you on task with what you’re writing about, and reminds you to stay on track and to answer that question thoroughly and well. Having a question is different than just having a topic. It is much more detailed and will help you to know more of what to write. You should make sure that your question is arguing your topic. A tool in the reading is using research roles to generate research questions. This will help you to have all of your info, and then create a question to go about throughout your paper. There are 7 rules that you need to accommodate to generate good research questions. I will follow those. This will help me in my writing to have a clear view of what I am asking, and what I am answering. It is important to know that when you are trying to find a question for your writing, there is a good amount of research that needs to be done. hey hey ho whats up man

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A&B pgs. 442-443, 17.4

This reading talks about how to put old before new information in your title, introduction, and conclusion. You should do this because it will help to hook your reader with something they know, then keep them reading to find out the new information. The reading also states that the “big picture” is quite important to making your paper effective. You need to start AND end with that in your paper. You need to forecast your paper with a thesis statement, purpose statement, or a blueprint statement. A tool I learned to use is to use a really good attention-grabber in your opening statement to hook the readers. Options would be: a dramatic vignette, a startling fact or statistic, an interesting quote, or an interesting scene. I am not very good when it comes to writing good introductions in my paper, but I will definitely use this tool to help improve that. I typically end up forecasting my paper with so much information that the introduction becomes boring and already says everything in it so there is no reason to move forward. I will make sure I find an interesting hook so that my readers will not get bored and want to continue.

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A&B 21.2, A&B pgs. 155-158, A&B pgs. 439-441, A&B pgs. 384-387, pg. 393

There are 3 main points in this reading. The first one is to know how to find credible and reliable sources for your paper. Lots of people can put whatever they want on the internet, so you should check facts and check the credibility of the writer and see if what he is saying is something you can use because it is factual instead of opinionated or false. The second one is to know how to make an annotated bibliography. In order for these to be good, you should takes notes as you go, put them all together, and then make your revisions. A first time draft isn’t going to cut it. The last main point talks about proposal writing. Proposal writing is when you offer a solution to a problem, or an answer to a question. That is what we are going to be doing with our research paper. There should be a description of the problem, proposal of the solution, and then justification. Those are the key parts to good proposal writing. A tool that it talks about in here a lot, is peer review. I would definitely use a friend or peer in my class to help me improve my paper. Sometimes it is really hard for me to hear feedback which is why I don’t ask for it, but I think it will drastically improve my paper if I do.

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A&B Chapter 17, 17.4

This reading talks about using the “big picture” in your introduction and conclusion to help improve your paper. You also should use this when creating your title. Your title should use the old before new information, a hook to get the reader’s attention and a word or phrase that forecasts information the reader is looking for beforehand. When starting your introduction you should also use the old before new information. Use the old information that they already know to start it out, and then the new information to surprise them with the argument. An introduction is not about length, it is about catching the reader’s attention with just a few simple sentences. In the conclusion you should be concerned about moving the parts throughout your paper back into the big picture as a whole. It will help tie it all together and not leave the reader confused. A skill I plan to use is practicing using background information and the old to new technique from 17.1. I will do this by finding background information on my topic and laying it out before each paragraph is written and completed. Using the old to new skill will help to make the argument more valid and to stand out more than it originally would.

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A&B Chapter 12, pgs. 284-293

This reading is mainly talking about analysis and synthesis. To analyze is to break down the parts of something to see the relationships and things they have in common. To synthesize . is to take those parts and put them together in a new and different way. When you are doing this you need to think with-the-grain and against-the-grain. It is important to pay close attention to the text and summarize the main points accurately. A synthesis basically shows how well you understand your writing, and the topic you are writing about. If you do this to your own paper, it can help you to see how the readers can better understand and relate to your paper. When you are analyzing your writing, it will cause you to question, weigh, and come up with new or better ideas to put into your paper. I will use both analyzing and synthesizing in my paper to try and understand my writing, and what the readers will be seeing. After I finish a draft I will take it apart, question the pieces, and put it back together in a new and improved way. Hopefully this will help me as a writer in future papers, me to understand the topic more, and the reader to understand the topic more. It will most likely be time consuming, but most definitely it will be a useful tool.

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