1st Paragraph content
Topic sentence is...
Critical Commentary
Although ____, topic is important because A,B,C.
A widely accepted argument has been that topic is important, which is accurate because Y.
Topic sentence is...
Learning goal required self-management, research, and communication skills.
All sentences should have...
subject and verb
Fancy word for opinion in an argument.
Claim
All facts taken from a source word for word have these...
quotation marks around the words
Number of reasons they should have...
3 or more
Number of ATLS they should have listed...
3 or more
When connecting two complete sentences with a conjunction, you need to use a...
Comma before the conjunction
Ex: It is important to pay attention to grammar, mainly because Ms. Robbins will grade for it.
Reasons in an argument
Evidence
All summaries and paraphrases should be in __________.
YOUR OWN WORDS
Types of evidence they can use to support the claim...
Quoted facts
Stories
Summarized facts
Paraphrased facts
They explain how they used the ATL skill by...
Mentioning when and why they used it
Use this piece of punctuation between items of a list.
Comma
Reasoning that says something is true because all the little details add up.
Inductive reasoning
All facts have this at the end of the sentence.
Parenthetical citation
(authorlastname, year)
(Title, year)
(Publisher, year)
They should have NONE of this as evidence...
Opinion statements
Evaluation statements
They can make their ATL argument stronger by...
Telling HOW it added to their learning
Using a picture from their process journal to prove what they said is true.
The comma goes here in relation to listed quotation marks.
The comma goes inside the quotation marks.
EX: "ATL quoted," "ATL quoted," and "ATL quoted" added to the research (ATL, 2019).
Type of reasoning that says something is true because a big truth applies to it.
Deductive Reasoning.
IF all of the information in a section of a paragraph comes from one source, you can do this.
Put the parenthetical citation at the end of the section.
EX. According to ------. They go on to say --------. They even argue--------- (lastname, year). They are right because----.
They should not use this mistake in logic...
Fallacy
Most common- Circular reasoning, either or, slippery slope.
They should put this at the end of the sentence with an ATL skill quoted...
(ATL, 2019)
OR
(IB, 2019)
Capitalize these things...
First word in a sentence
Proper nouns: names, places, titles
The pronoun 'i'
First words in quotation marks
Type of sentence where the author ends the paragraph WITHIN a section.
Transition sentence- Summarize the content and hint at the next paragraph.
Written in the sentence that says who wrote the fact or what the title of the article was.
Signal phrase
EX: According to author... Author argues... Author correctly states... Author, why they matter, says...
EX: Title states... According to publisher...