Day 15:: Checklist For The Rough Draft

Friday, February 2, 2018

Writing Up That Rough Draft

Objective:

I can finish my rough draft and feel proud of myself!

Agenda

UPDATE:  Ms. Pasternak is out sick Today, Use your time SUPER well so that you can enjoy the game Sunday night.

Your rough draft is due on Friday at 9pm on Classroom.

Here is the checklist in google Doc format.
Here is the rubric.

Intro Paragraph that concludes with a thesis

Transitions  Between Paragraphs:  You can do this as you think best.  

1.  Overall Context:  
• You may have a transition paragraph following the introduction that is a good place to give the historical context of the time and place of the struggle for decolonization.
2. Marking Your Sections:
• You do not NEED to do this if your argument is fluid, but if you would LIKE to, you can make transition paragraphs between your section ideas OR you can just make a Section Header that alerts the reader to a new section, or nothing at all if you think that is best.  Your call.

Each Body Paragraph:

• Should have a GOOD topic sentence that connects the main ideas of your paragraph and ALSO connects back to the thesis.
• Should use footnotes even on sections that are not directly quoted.  If you got the historical information you are discussing in a particular secondary source, just make sure to footnote that.
• Should have AT LEAST TWO, but maybe 3 or 4 examples to prove your topic sentence well.  Do not overuse quotations.
• For each example, you need to provide context in your own words, the specific example, and you analysis linking the example to your topic sentence / thesis.

Counterclaim

• This can go wherever it makes sense, but please highlight it in green.

Conclusion Paragraph

Citations / Sourcing

• We are using footnotes. 
• Use a wide variety of academic sources.
• Our endnotes / bibliography is in Chicago style.  Yes, you can use Noodle tools, but if that feels confusing, just check out:  
• This is a sample paper in Chicago style.  I like to use the bibliography to guide my formatting.  (HINT:  It MUST be alphabetical!)
• I like this as a general resource for how to cite and source.  It is from the Purdue Writing Lab.

Homework: 

Rough Draft Due on Classroom SUNDAY February 4 at NOON. Your final paper should be NO LESS than 1800 words and no more than 2500 words (not counting citations and bibliography).  If you do not have your rough draft in class for Monday's peer editing, you will lost half credit on that assignment.

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