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Peer Review
Thesis statements
Introductions
Conclusions
Peer Review Exchange annotated bibliography with a
classmate
Read essay
Answer guiding questions to offer valid feedback about classmate’s essay
On a sheet of paper, briefly explain which of the following items presents the most difficulty for you as a writer.
Thesis statements
Introductions
Conclusions
Where do you stand?
Where do you stand? Go to the part of the room with the item that
presents the most difficulty for you.
Discuss your issue with the others who have also chosen this item as most difficult.
As a group, decide which reasons are the most common.
Write 3-5 of them on the board.
What is a thesis statement?
A one- or two-sentence summary of a paper’s content
Serves as an assertion about essay’s content
Highlights all main topics covered in essay
What is its purpose?
It establishes a focus
Establishes a basis on which to include or exclude information
Forecasts author’s discussion
What are the components of a thesis statement?
Makes an assertion/claim about essay topic
Don’t be wishy-washy!
Specific
Don’t be too broad!
What is a working thesis?
Hypothesis about topic or a claim intended to be made
After drafting, success of working thesis can be evaluated
Working thesis statements CHANGE!
What is its purpose?
Help guide research
If unable to prove through research, must change and alter this assertion
Name and describe three types of thesis statements.
Explanatory thesis
Call for information, not analysis
Fuel-cell technology has emerged as a promising approach to developing energy-efficient vehicles.
Mildly argumentative thesis
Reports, some analysis and judgment
To reduce our dependence on nonrenewable fossil fuel, the federal government should encourage the development of fuel-cell vehicles.
Name and describe three types of thesis statements.
Strongly argumentative thesis
Call for information, analysis, and a firm point of view
The federal government should subsidize the development of fuel-cell vehicles as well as the hydrogen infrastructure needed to support them; otherwise, the United States will be increasingly vulnerable to recession and other economic dislocations resulting from our dependence on the continued flow of foreign oil.
Write a thesis statement for a summary of Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
William Shakespeare defines what love is and what it isn’t in Sonnet 116.
William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 identifies love’s characteristics as being steadfast and everlasting.
Author name…article title…three/four/+ main ideas
What are some strategies for writing introductions?
Quotation
Give quote and explain how it elucidates topic
Historical Review
Background info so that reader can follow issue
Review of a Controversy
Like historical, but shows why issue is debated
From General to Specific
Takes reader from what they know to more detailed info leading to essay’s specific topic
Anecdote and Illustration
Funny, touching, or otherwise appropriate story
Question
Ask simple question that isn’t all that simple to answer
Intro format suggestion Opener
Background information
Thesis statement
7-10 sentences
What are some strategies for writing conclusions?
Statement of subject’s significance
How essay applies to greater world
Call for further research
What needs to still be considered (often done in scientific essays)
Solution/recommendation
Essays about problems/controversy can give what should be done
Anecdote
Quotation
Question
Speculation
What are some strategies for writing conclusions?
Anecdote
Tell a story so that readers discover significance to another source
Quotation
Helps gain authority and credibility
Question
Calls on readers to assume an active role by offering their own answers
Speculation
Get the reader thinking about possibilities
Consider what might happen as well as what has happened
Conclusion format suggestion Summarize points
Reiterate thesis (don’t do this if adequately summarized points)
Final thought
Student presentations Fragments
Run-ons
For Thursday...
Annotated bibliography final copy
Submit rubric, final copy, prewrite, plan, rough draft, peer review
Read Behrens chapter 4 (pgs. 94 – 101) and chapter 5 (pgs. 129 – 137, 149 – 169)