Monday, March 30 2009
January 10, 2009
Today’s Agenda
1) Papers are in-process and will be returned to you over the next two days. When you get it, you will have two days to revise and resubmit for a final grade.
2) Let’s take five to ten to write in our journals about how we researched our sources. What worked, what didn’t? And why? Describe how you completed this project?
Group Work
Class Discussion
3) Get out a blank piece of paper:
a. Why do we argue something? How do we argue within an academic environment?
Group Work
Class Discussion
4) For today we had to find our 15 MLA sources. Once we have our sources, we can begin to think about what it is that we may want to argue. We gather the data first so that we have something to work with.
5) Now that have found some sources, we need to begin coming up with thesis statements. Thesis statements need to be specific enough to defend in a reasonable way. We are NOT writing FOR or AGAINST papers.
6) Your thesis statements need to be more specific than that.
7) Let’s take five minutes to come up with a thesis statement. (What are they?)
8) Let’s make it MORE SPECIFIC.
9) Okay, now that we have thought about OUR thesis statement, what would an alternative statement be that would fundamentally disagree with your own?
10) Okay, what is evidence? What are some kinds of evidence? Which of your sources do you think will be the most likely to have the evidence you need?
10) Your homework for Wednesday is to identify five of the fifteen sources that you think will be useful for you. You have to 1) begin with a paragraph that introduces me to your subject and thesis, and then you must, in at least 5 separate well-developed paragraphs, introduce me to each of these important sources and define the thesis for each – the thesis statement should be actually quoted. Then you need to write one paragraph on how you imagine that you will organize your argument. You must e-mail this to me and bring a copy to class.
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