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Document Formatting
The Academic Essay
Memoir/Personal Essay
Research
Robin Lore
100

What spacing should your document have?

Double space

100

What is top-down structure?

Introduction with your thesis at the end clearly stating your argument, body paragraphs, conclusion

100

What makes the topic of a memoir different than a personal essay?

Memoir is memory, personal essay is recent

100

What are the three Boolean operators?

And, Or, Not

100

Name one cool thing Robin did in highschool

Marching band, theater, improv, slam poetry

200
What needs to be in the header of your document, in the upper right hand corner appearing on each page of your document?
Last name and page number
200

What should you avoid in your conclusion?

Summarizing your argument
200

What genre are memoir and personal essay?

Creative nonfiction

200

What does BEAM, used to describe how we are going to use a text, stand for?

Background, Evidence, Argument, Method

200

What did I major in at Berklee?

Songwriting
300
Your Google Doc will not be available to your professor if you forget to...

Share it with Berklee College of Music

300

What should you avoid in your thesis? (Give me two things)

Outlining your argument, arguing too many things, overexplaining, being too vague

300

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

300

Your sources in your annotated bibliography need to be...

Alphabetized by whatever comes first in the citation

300

What other degree do I have and what is it in?

MFA in Creative Writing

400

The first line of every paragraph should be...

Indented

400

What is forwarding?

Showing agreement with a text then furthering it in some way, adding to it

400
When should you summarize rather than using dialogue?

When it's something that the reader already knows or when the information is important but how it was said does not

400

If you want to send/save a link to a page on the library website, what do you need to do?

Get a permalink

400

What is one embarassing story I've told you this semester?

Choose your own adventure

500

What is the order of information in an MLA header?

First Last
Prof
Class
Due date

500

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

500

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."

500
What do we use the CRAAP test for and what do the letters stand for? (it's okay if you describe what each letter is if you cannot remember the exact word)

Evaluating a source. Currency, Relevancy, Author, Accuracy, Purpose

500

What is notable about me having a master's degree?

I got it before my sister