Descriptive Essay Quick Check

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Descriptive Essay Quick Check
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Descriptive Essay Quick Check

• You do not need a title page!
• Be sure your entire paper is typed and
  double-spaced.
• The font should be a nice, normal font with a
  font size of 10 or 12.
• Check your header is it really half an inch
  down? It should be on every page and have your
  last name and page number Smith 1
• Check the heading information be sure it is
  accurate, you should have Your name, My Name
  (spelled correctly!), ENG 101 Your Section
  number, and the Due Date. Remember we dont want
  to abbreviate the due date! Section numbers are
  below in case you forget!

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Descriptive Essay Quick Check

• Look at your title is it amazing? Does it cause
  intrigue? Dont be dramatic though!
• Check your paragraph lengths you need to be
  sure your intro and conclusion paragraphs are 5-7
  sentences each and your body paragraphs are 7-10
  sentences each.
• Check your word count! You must be a minimum of
  1000 words, dont exceed 1800 words!
• Be sure you have ten vocabulary words properly
  underlined or highlighted! Be certain you are
  using them appropriately! They can be from
  lessons 1-8. And, yes, you can change the endings
  if you need to!
• Be sure you have 3 metaphors and 3 similes.
  These need to be highlighted or in a different
  font color be certain you give me a key
  somewhere!

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Descriptive Essay Quick Check

• Review your paper for tired, boring words that
  can spruced up and transformed into SCINTILLATING
  words! Remember show, dont tell! That is one
  of the major writing concepts I will be reviewing
  in your writing!
• Avoid copula! Can you have copulas? Yes. Do you
  want many of them? NO! So, look to see where you
  can remove a copula and put in its place
  something fantastic! In case you forgot, the
  copula are is, am, was, were, be, being, been,
  have, has, and had!
• Be leery of vocabulary vomit! Dont put a
  million, huge, crazy words all strung together
  your writing still needs to flow smoothly!

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Descriptive Essay Quick Check

• In turn, be careful of figurative language
  craziness! Dont say in one sentence Her eyes
  were the color of roses, and she ran like the
  wind, yet she had the sadness of a jilted party
  clown. Blech! You dont want to have your
  readers brain scrambling to digest a million
  random comparisons! So be thoughtful with your
  description!
• Avoid clichés! Be original with your writing!
  Paint vibrant images with your words!
• Be certain you have the pattern open with your
  personal story, say What I know for sure is, and
  go to your big picture idea your message!
• Be sure you bold your What I know for sure is
  sentence!

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Descriptive Essay Quick Check

• Check your attention getter! Do you start in the
  moment? Do you immediately draw your reader in
  and make him or her want to do nothing more but
  read on?? You should! Make this first sentence
  spectacular!
• Be certain your thesis is the last sentence of
  your intro paragraph!
• Watch agreement issues! Dont say Many people
  dont understand fear until he truly experiences
  it. Well, people is plural, but he is singular
  so both need to be plural or both need to be
  singular!
• Write out numbers less than one hundred!
• BE CERTAIN you dont have you or your written
  anywhere in your paper!
• Dont begin sentences with and, but, or, nor,
  for, so yet.

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Descriptive Essay Quick Check

• Check to be sure you really have 1 inch margins!
• Watch semicolon usage! For some reason people
  like to make up their own rules! Semicolons join
  two independent sentences! Be careful here! If
  we have lots of semicolon errors then we will
  need to review these in details!
• Keep your paragraphs balanced!
• End just as strong as you began! ?

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Descriptive Essay Quick Check

• Finally,
• You will need to turn in on Wednesday
• Your approved TTAPP
• Your THREE rough drafts! (Two peer edits and One
  self edit)
• Your final draft
• Be sure you come to class with everything already
  highlighted and identified and ready to go!

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Descriptive Essay Quick Check

• Dont forget turnitin.com!
• Submit to turnitin.com even before you print!
• If you have a problem contact me!
• Your paper is due to turnitin.com on or before
  1159pm on Wednesday!
• If you have any problems, email me the paper
  copy your paper into the body of an email to me
  and CC yourself!
• If your internet goes down leave me a voice
  mail before the time it is due and you will be
  fine! My school number is 623-376-3143.
• Remember, each day the paper is not submitted to
  turnitin.com is 20 points off your overall paper
  grade! Yikes!

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Questions?

• Email me!
• alexis.laduca_at_dvusd.org