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CM103Unit 3

BRAINSTORMING & THESIS BUILDING

Tara G. Smith Contact Information

• Tara Smith

• TSmith@kaplan.edu

• AIM: SmtTara2

• Office Hours 9:00-11:00 PM ET Wednesdays or by appointment.

• ***NOTE MY NEW PHONE NUMBER: 530-877-2840

For tonight’s class, please do a system check—thanks! **You must have Java 8.**

UNIT 3 SEMINAR AGENDA

In this session, we will address the following:

Brainstorming

Creating an effective thesis statement

‘Hooking’ your reader as shown in Rules For Writers

Thesis Workshop

BRAINSTORMING

How do you brainstorm? Make lists?

Outline?

Use clustering, mapping,

or webbing?

Use charts or graphs?

Free write?

Something else?

KND Chart—What I Know/What I Need to Know/What I Need to Do

A great way to brainstorm and begin research!

***Check out the link in Webliographyhttp://www.shs.d211.org/ForeignLang/faculty/Jll/knd_chart.htm

BRAINSTORMING: Thesis Statements

What makes an

effective thesis

statement?

Class . . . ?

What makes an effective thesis statement?

“An effective thesis statement is a central idea that

requires supporting evidence; it is of adequate

scope for an essay of the assigned length, and it

is sharply focused” (Hacker, 2009, p. 23).

Contains a key word or controlling idea that limits

its focus

Basically, a good thesis statement shows the

reader your slant or position and what you’re

going to write about.

“Hook” your reader leading up to the thesis

What are ways to

“hook” your reader

(from Rules for

Writers)?

Sentences leading up to the thesis: “The HOOK”

A review. . . . page 22 of your book. A good hook provides:

• a startling statistic or an unusual fact

• a vivid example

• a description

• a paradoxical statement

• a quotation or a bit of dialogue

• a question

• an analogy

• an anecdote

THESIS WORKSHOP Let’s talk about your ideas for our problem topics.

Our broad starting point is: law enforcement and judicial process (or fire science).

This is what we did in the Unit 2 DB.

DRUGSDRUGSWHITE COLLAR CRIMESWHITE COLLAR CRIMES

GANGSGANGS

SEX CRIMESSEX CRIMES

FIRE SCIENCEFIRE SCIENCE

THESIS WORKSHOP In the Unit 3 DB, think about the "core issue" of the problem associated with your topic.

What do you hope to learn about this topic?

What is your “debatable point”? This main point should include the three key points you plan to explore in your essay.

DRUGSDRUGSWHITE COLLAR CRIMESWHITE COLLAR CRIMES

GANGSGANGS

SEX CRIMESSEX CRIMES

FIRE SCIENCEFIRE SCIENCE

Chat about your topics now!

Chat about your topics now!

Please join the appropriate Chat Room in our classroom. For example, if your topic is drugs, please join the chat room, “Drugs topics.”

Click Button to Enter Chat

How to use the chat room

Type here.

What you’re discussing• This is where you can discuss your white collar crime topics.

• Here are some discussion starters:

• What is the "core issue" of the problem associated with your topic?

• What do you hope to learn about this topic? What is your “debatable point”?

• Take these ideas and your conversation to the Unit 3 DB after class is over!

Paragraph organization• Please be sure to organize your paragraphs effectively. Please read this

week’s Rules for Writers reading to learn more about these kinds of paragraphs:

• Examples and illustrations

• Narration

• Description

• Process

• Comparison/contrast

• Analogy

• Cause/effect

• Classification/division

• Definition

Fun with grammar! Avoiding run-ons

RUN-ON:

Cosmo and Cassie love each other they curl up together.

COMMA SPLICE:

Cosmo and Cassie love each other, they curl up together. Avoiding comma splices

and run-ons . . . .

Fun with grammar! SENTENCE FIXESCosmo and Cassie love each other; they curl up together.

Cosmo and Cassie love each other. They curl up together.

Cosmo and Cassie love each other, so they curl up together.

Because Cosmo and Cassie love each other, they curl up together. Fixing comma splices

and run-ons . . . .

Tara G. Smith Contact Information

• Tara Smith

• TSmith@kaplan.edu

• AIM: SmtTara2

• Office Hours 9:00-11:00PM ET Wednesdays or by appointment