Describe your writing and revision process below. What can be improved as you work on your final draft of Essay 3?
In-Class Writing: Revision Plan
Describe your revision plan for your scholarly research essay. List at least the next three steps you need to take, explaining why you must take each step.
In-Class Writing: Crafting an Effective Title
An effective essay title should:
- inform the intended audience of the topic of your essay. What is your exhibit? What is the issue?
- intrigue the reader by stating or hinting your main idea about the essay’s topic. What is your insight about your exhibit or issue? What key terms must you use?
Possible approaches are:
- TOPIC/EXHIBIT: MAIN IDEA
- MAIN IDEA of/in TOPIC/EXHIBIT
- TOPIC in EXHIBIT
Post two possible titles for your scholarly research essay below.
In-Class Writing: Counterarguments and Conversations
Quote one idea or strategy from one of the readings assigned for homework. Explain what it means and how it can help you in Essay 3.
In-Class Writing: Revising Introductions
In a post below, state which specific intellectual problems you are exploring in your research essay. Refer to the Identifying Problems handout. You can use numbers to refer to the problems.
In-Class Writing: Developing a Research Question
Post your current research question for Essay 3 below.
In-Class Writing: Revising Your Thesis 2
Post your revision of your thesis as a comment below. Follow the revision procedure we used in class today.
- check to make sure that your thesis is made up of claims and not facts
- break your thesis into sub-claims
- make these sub-claims specific by reviewing and analyzing evidence from the poster
A strong thesis should:
- explain the main message of the poster
- explain how the poster conveys this message (via fear/desire, ethos/logos/pathos)
- state the intended audience
Use simple sentence structure to make sure that your ideas are clear for your reader.
In-Class Writing: Revising Your Thesis
Post your revised thesis for Essay 2 as a comment to this post. Then identify all the sub-points in your thesis. These sub-points should be developed and supported in the analysis paragraphs of your essay. See the example below:
This advertisement is telling its viewers that they can increase their social status (1) and add exceptional adventure to their lives (2) by purchasing Land Rover vehicles (3). To convey this message, the advertisement symbolizes a culture foreign (4) to its Western viewers (5), appealing to their fears that they are living unexciting lives (6). The Land Rover logo provides a solution to this fear (7); by buying a Land Rover, the viewer can escape a regular lifestyle and experience exotic cultures that only few can afford to enjoy.
In-Class Writing: Identifying Important Visual Elements (Section 26)
List all the important visual elements in the advertisement that you will analyze for Essay 2. Post your response below. (10 minutes)
In-Class Writing: Paraphrasing vs Patch-writing
Patch-writing is a form of plagiarism in which a writer reproduces an idea by keeping crucial words, phrases, or sentence structure while swapping out few parts or making minor changes to the structure. A paraphrase however demonstrates that a writer understands an idea and can explain it in a way that is genuinely his or hers. To paraphrase, read the sentence a few times, think about its meaning, then close the text and write in your own words what you understood from the sentence.
Read the Wikipedia entry on morte d’Arthurs and write a paraphrase of the meaning of the term. Post below.
