Unit 2 Criteria
Careful and consistent attention to formatting and accuracy
What is editing/proofreading?
A personal story used to support a claim
What is a subject and a verb
My instructor's drop-in hours
What is Tuesdays 1-2 AND Wednesdays 2:30-3:30
Another name for the draft you turn for peer review.
What is Workshop Draft?
Correctly uses transitions, readerly cues, and differentiates between sub-points
What is Organization
The term for placing yourself into a mindset in which you open yourself up to what the author is saying to find common ground
What is reading like a believer?
Where the comma goes in relation to a FANBOY
what is before the FANBOYS?
The number of major unit assignments
What is four?
Uses sub-points, explanations, secondary research, examples, personal anecdotes, or other support that leads to the main claim.
What is Development?
What is taking a side or presenting an argument?
One way to fix a comma splice or run-on sentence
The number of unexcused absences before losing points and then before failing.
What is 3 before losing points and 9 before failing?
The point in the writing process when I am allowed to visit the Writing Center
Any time! Brainstorming, pre-writing, drafting, rough draft, revision, ect.
Demonstrates openness, objectivity, and fairness, and engages the reader
What is Tone/Style?
One of the objectives for this assignment.
Apply several college-level reading strategies to explore and understand a text
Summarize a text fairly and accurately to inform an audience
Develop a main thesis that reflects how a text is personally relevant and significant and
how it enables you to show a deeper understanding of yourself
Clarify your audience’s understanding by providing analysis, explanation, anecdotes and
examples, or other contributions
Practice writing moves that engage your readers and that show respect towards the issue, the author(s) of the text, and your readers
Things included in a summary
What is the main point, sub-points, key quotations and moments?
One reason for an excused absence.
Another name for the first draft you turn in for grading.
What is Presentation draft?
Articulates a clear main claim that demonstrates your ability to understand, reflect, and relate to the reading
What is Purpose/Focus?
One of the rationales for this assignment
Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving when analyzing important social and
cultural issues.
Demonstrate competence in academic reading and writing strategies (note-taking,
summarizing, and identifying main ideas) and reflect upon your writing process.
Guide your readers with appropriate organizational strategies and meet expectations of
tone and style
Things needed for an MLA in-text citation
What is the author's last name, if it is not in the introductory phrase, and the page number the information was found on, if the source has page numbers.
Late paper policy
Alternate arrangements can be made before the deadline, unit papers lose 1 letter grade per day, revised drafts that are more than 1 week late will not be accepted.
Another name for the final draft you turn in for grading
What is Revised draft?