ORGANIZATION
What is the most important sentence of your argumentative research paper?
List two things this sentence must do
What is thesis statement?
What is clearly state your specific argument, and be debatable?
What should you do the first time you use a source in your paper?
Make up an example!
What is: Introduce it!
John Smith, a former Grand Valley writing professor,
What information should you include in an MLA in-text citation if they are known? (2 things)
What is the author's last name and page number (if known)
What is the most commonly used word in the English language?
What is "the"?
What two things should you try to do with your topic sentences?
What is transition from the previous paragraph and clearly state the main idea of the current paragraph?
List at least 3 different types of evidence/sources you could use in your paper.
What is statistics/facts, anecdotes, expert opinion, scientific study, and analogy?
If your source was written by Matthew Jones, Derek Brown, and John Williams, how would you cite this in-text?
What is According to Matthew Jones and others,
What is Here is a "quote" (Jones et al.)
How many colors of M & M's are there in a normal plain bag?
What is 6? (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, brown)
What three things do you want to make sure you do in your introduction to set up your paper for success?
What is start with the situation (a way to engage the audience), provide needed context on your topic, and end with your thesis statement
When using a source, you can either use a direct quote or paraphrase the information.
Describe why/when you might want to use a direct quote, and describe why/when you might want to paraphrase.
What is you want to use a direct quote if the author used particularly effective language or there isn't a better way to say it?
What is you want to use a paraphrase if you can explain it easier in your own words or the passage was really long?
If your source doesn't have an author, what would your in-text citation need to be? Why is that the case?
What is the "Article Title"?
What is the only letter that doesn’t appear in any U.S. state name?
What is Q?
List at least four elements we should see in every argumentative body paragraph
What is topic sentence, context, evidence, explanation, conclusion/connection sentence?
What does the quote sandwich method entail?
What is context, evidence, and explanation?
If your article author was John Smith and he interviewed Molly Mannes, how would you cite what Molly Mannes said?
What is According to Molly Mannes, "quote" (qtd. in Smith).
What is blah blah blah (Mannes qtd. in Smith)
What is the most common animal mascot in four-year college teams?
What is Eagles?
You want to write an argumentative paper about remote learning.
Come up with a bad thesis statement and a good thesis statement on this topic.
What is Good: Remote learning makes students less focused and less successful than in-person classes.
What is Bad: Remote learning is a thing that happens in colleges and sometimes students like it
Examine the following passage. Would you paraphrase or direct quote? Write one sentence with the method you decided.
“84% of college student athletes engage in disordered eating and weight control strategies – such as binge eating, self-induced vomiting, strict dieting, weight loss pills, fasting and skipping meals. These behaviors can lead to the development of an eating disorder, including anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, and negatively affect physical and mental health” (Jones).
What is direct quote: According to Jones, "84% of college student athletes engage in disordered eating and weight control strategies."
What is paraphrase: Jones discusses how a lot of college student athletes take part in unhealthy strategies to control their weight, which can lead to a lot negative health impacts for the student.
What are 5 important things when it comes to setting up the MLA Works Cited page?
What is starting on a new page, title Works Cited, double spaced, hanging idents, alphabetical order, all sources you used in your paper?
What punctuation mark was originally called the “note of admiration”?
What is an exclamation point?
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