Research+Day+11

What I noticed about your rough drafts...


 * 1) Check your email to get your paper back. I emailed everyone their paper with my comments on Saturday.
 * 2) If you did not give me a rough draft then you lost your chance for me to give you feed back. Get a friend to proof read your paper. I will only read and grade your final draft.
 * 3) Word Choice - some sentences are very confusing thanks to inadequate word choices or word order. Read your papers out loud to catch this.
 * 4) Paragraph Structure - Using the paragraph structure hand out, map out your best paragraph. This will help you see gaps. Now that you have looked at your best paragraph, find your worst paragraph. While grading I saw the following: No topic sentences, no commentary/elaboration, no closing sentences, and useless repetition.
 * 5) If I resized your picture, leave it alone. It was too big, not centered, and looked silly. Your welcome. :)
 * 6) Remove the space after paragraphs in Microsoft Word. Everything is 12 pt. font. Your work cited page does not count as part of your paper total.
 * 7) Check out the rubric and grading scale I will use on your final. You are going to fail if you don't prove your point with commentary, elaboration, and keep making silly grammar mistakes.
 * 8) This is an argumentative paper with a dash of research; not a research paper. You MUST make an argument/opinion THEN tell me the pros and cons. Your overall commentary should be explaining the evidence to PROVE your point of view.