Contemporary Issues Research Paper Self Check

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Contemporary Issues Research Paper Self Check
What is research, but a blind date with
knowledge. - William Henry

• ENG 102

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Title Page

• Circle the title of your paper should be a
  great title!
• Be sure you have
• Title
• Your Name
• ENG 102 6206
• Ms. LaDuca
• February 23rd, 2007

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Next, your outline

• Cross out your name, date, course and other
  information you will not need this for your
  true final draft
• Be sure your final draft matches the flow of your
  paper!
• Check your headers Smith i

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• How to have the Roman numerals in your outline .
  . .

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A toolbar should hopefully pop up, you will be
wanting to use these two options . . .
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This will allow you to add page numbers to your
header!
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You need to locate where you can change what kind
of numbers you use on this tool bar it is the
third one in!
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First, the basics . . .

• Highlight all your parenthetical documentation
• Check for stacking! 2 pieces of commentary for
  EACH quote
• No quotes or paraphrases should be in topic
  sentences. Exception attention getter could
  have a quote, but it needs to be amazing!
• Check for quotes or paraphrases that are too
  long! Your words should drive this piece.
• Check your PD for internet sources, do not put
  any page numbers! (Smith).

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Parenthetical Documentation

• According to some, dreams express "profound
  aspects of personality" (Foulkes 184), though
  others disagree.
• According to Foulkes's study, dreams may express
  "profound aspects of personality" (184).
• Is it possible that dreams may express "profound
  aspects of personality" (Foulkes 184)?
• Cullen concludes, "Of all the things that
  happened there/ That's all I remember" (11-12).

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Parenthetical Documentation

• Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked
  by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
  (263).
• Romantic poetry is characterized by the
  "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
  (Wordsworth 263).
• Wordsworth extensively explored the role of
  emotion in the creative process (263).

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Parenthetical Documentation

• If the work you are making reference to has no
  author, use an abbreviated version of the work's
  title. For non-print sources, such as films, TV
  series, pictures, or other media, or electronic
  sources, include the name that begins the entry
  in the Works Cited page.
• For example
• An anonymous Wordsworth critic once argued that
  his poems were too emotional ("Wordsworth Is A
  Loser" 100).

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Parenthetical Documentation

• Sometimes you may have to use an indirect
  quotation. An indirect quotation is a quotation
  that you found in another source that was quoting
  from the original. For such indirect quotations,
  use "qtd. in" to indicate the source.
• For example
• Ravitch argues that high schools are pressured
  to act as "social service centers, and they don't
  do that well" (qtd.in Weisman 259).

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First, the basics . . .

• Do you need blocked quotes anywhere? Dont have
  more than 2 (1 is best)
• Long Quotations (Blocked Quotes)
• Place quotations longer than four typed lines in
  a free-standing block of typewritten lines, and
  omit quotation marks. Start the quotation on a
  new line, indented one inch from the left margin,
  and maintain double-spacing. Your parenthetical
  citation should come after the closing
  punctuation mark. When quoting verse, maintain
  original line breaks. (You should maintain
  double-spacing throughout your essay.)

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First, the basics . . .

• Nelly Dean treats Heathcliff poorly and
  dehumanizes him throughout her narration
• They entirely refused to have it in bed with
  them, or even in their room, and I had no more
  sense, so, I put it on the landing of the
  stairs, hoping it would be gone on the morrow.
  By chance, or else attracted by hearing his
  voice, it crept to Mr. Earnshaw's door, and
  there he found it on quitting his chamber.
  Inquiries were made as to how it got there I
  was obliged to confess, and in recompense for my
  cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the
  house. (Brontë 78)
• Back to the regular paragraph here.

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The Introduction

• Is your attention getter vibrant? Will it truly
  draw in the reader.
• Do you a provide a statement of the problem?
• Underline your thesis be sure it is the last
  sentence (or two) of your intro paragraph.
• Double double space between paragraphs?

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The Introduction finally, does your intro

• Capture your audiences attention?
• Give a BRIEF background on your topic?
• Develop interest in your topic?
• Guide the reader to the thesis?

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The Body Paragraphs

• Are they balanced?
• Are the topic sentences free of shady pronouns
  read each one right now and highlight any shady
  pronouns! Especially keep an eye out for these,
  this, it
• Look again at your quotes and paraphrases are
  they sprinkled in throughout?

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The Body Paragraphs

• History of the problem label with a bracket
  where your history is.
• Extent of the Problem label with a bracket
  where your extent is. Do you address who is
  directly affected? How bad it really is?
• Repercussions (impact/effect) label with a
  bracket where your repercussions section is. Do
  you clearly break down what the future will hold
  if YOUR problem is not solved?

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The Body Paragraphs

• Future Solutions - label with a bracket where
  your solutions are, you will probably want 2, if
  possible or 1 strong one. Underline exactly
  where you state your main solution. You want to
  have this at the very beginning of your solution
  paragraph.

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The Conclusion do you

• Stress the importance of the thesis statement?
• Give the essay a sense of completeness?
• Leave a final impression on the reader?

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The Works Cited

• Must be double-spaced
• Have its own header
• Alphabetical order
• MUST MATCH YOUR PARENTHETICAL DOCUMENTATION!
• Look at page 27 in your SSH!
• Be sure the online databases have Rio Salado
  College Lib., Tempe.
• ??????????????????

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Just a few more details . . .

• Check your vocabulary at the end of your essay,
  put V and the number of vocabulary words you
  have
• Check your sources are you missing any sources?
  If so, list at the end of your essay what you are
  missing.
• Two PD for each source? For each source list the
  author (or title) and what page the PD is on.
• Book 1 Q2 P2
• Book 2
• Per 1
• Per 2
• SJ
• Encyclopedia

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Just a few more details . . .

• Headers on all the pages? (Except title page) i,
  ii, iii, iv for outline 1, 2, 3 for paper
• Repeat of title where your paper begins?
• List your total word count at the end of the
  paper! 1250-1700, no shorter, no longer!
• Entire paper should be in 3rd person he, she,
  it, they no I, you, we, us, our, me, mine and
  so on

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On your final draft . . .

• Identify all vocabulary
• Highlight all parenthetical documentation
  paraphrases and quotes (highlight the entire
  section from the beginning till the end of the
  parenthetical documentation)
• Provide a word count (rememeber it needs to be
  correct turnitin.com will give me your word
  count as well)
• Underline your thesis
• Label in the margin your three paraphrases

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At the end of your paper list . . .

• 3 strengths of your paper already
• 3 areas that you know are weak
• What you have left to complete
• What you want your peer editors to focus on

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• I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent
  rewriter.  James Michener