Document Formatting
What spacing should your document have?
Double space
What is top-down structure?
Introduction with your thesis at the end clearly stating your argument, body paragraphs, conclusion
What makes the topic of a memoir different than a personal essay?
Memoir is memory, personal essay is recent
What are the three Boolean operators?
And, Or, Not
Name one cool thing Robin did in highschool
Marching band, theater, improv, slam poetry
What should you avoid in your conclusion?
What genre are memoir and personal essay?
Creative nonfiction
What does BEAM, used to describe how we are going to use a text, stand for?
Background, Evidence, Argument, Method
What did I major in at Berklee?
Share it with Berklee College of Music
What should you avoid in your thesis? (Give me two things)
Outlining your argument, arguing too many things, overexplaining, being too vague
How does a personal essay/memoir differ from an academic essay?
Style/voice is less formal, not necessarily making an argument, don't work with sources, personal by nature
Your sources in your annotated bibliography need to be...
Alphabetized by whatever comes first in the citation
What other degree do I have and what is it in?
MFA in Creative Writing
The first line of every paragraph should be...
Indented
What is forwarding?
Showing agreement with a text then furthering it in some way, adding to it
When it's something that the reader already knows or when the information is important but how it was said does not
If you want to send/save a link to a page on the library website, what do you need to do?
Get a permalink
What is one embarassing story I've told you this semester?
Choose your own adventure
What is the order of information in an MLA header?
First Last
Prof
Class
Due date
What is countering?
Not disagreeing with a source, rather saying "yes but" showing where your opinion differs from the source's or pointing out its limitations/shortcomings
Correctly format this line of dialogue:
I found the bag in the trees behind my house she said and the money in it has been lifechaning.
[indent] "I found the bag in the trees behind my house," she said, "and the money in it has been lifechaning."
Evaluating a source. Currency, Relevancy, Author, Accuracy, Purpose
What is notable about me having a master's degree?
I got it before my sister