Odyssey Outline Points

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Odyssey Outline Points

• Moving from Outline to Draft

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Directions

• The following slides identify the most important
  things to consider as youre beginning to draft
  your paper in paragraph form.
• Please read them closely and come prepared with
  any questions you have.

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Quotations

• Many of you need more DQs there should be more
  than one piece of quoted evidence for each
  situation/example.
• Im not going to count, but I can tell you right
  now that having 4 DQs for the whole paper is
  insufficient.
• Quotation format You need the slashes where the
  lines break!!
• Citation format
• (Homer X.167-171 169)
• author book line s pg.

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Long Quotations

• Some of you have reallllly long DQs going on.
  You need to break these up.
• If you have ONE (thats all Ill allow)that is
  over 4 lines long when you type it and you just
  cannot trim it, then you need to format as a
  Block quotation
• Always use a colon at the end of the signal
  phrase.
• Quotation marks are not used to open/close block
  quotes.
• Block quote indentation must always be deeper
  than the indentation before it. Block quotes are
  indented 10 spaces from the left margin, but if a
  10 space indentation makes the block quote match
  up with the papers standard paragraph
  indentation then it is acceptable to indent the
  block quote an additional tab space. It is not
  acceptable for paragraph indentations and block
  quote indentations to match up, for the
• Punctuation goes at the end of the quotes final
  sentence, not after the page number (this is
  different from other citations!).

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CQA

• As you begin to put this into paragraph form,
  dont forget CQA for your examples.
• C Context Make sure you provide the context
  necessary to understand your evidence
• Q quotation/evidence
• A Analysis. Evaluate THIS evidence toward the
  thesis. This means breaking it down to discuss
  why it's the evidence you really need. For this
  I mean examining word choice in the quotation,
  attention to HOW something is said, or even to
  whom it's being said.

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Topic Sentences

• Topic Sentences (TPS)
• Should capture the content of the entire
  paragraph
• Should transition from the paragraph before it.
• Should still have evident tie to the thesis
• MAY be two sentences.
• Look at the How to move from outline to draft
  for strong examples.
• You will see how he used language from his
  previous paragraph to help move into the next
  one. Try to do the same with yours.

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Intros and Conclusions

• We will discuss this more next Wed, but here are
  a few tips for you

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Intros

• For an analytical essay
• Write it LAST. (How can you write an intro to
  something you havent written yet!?!)
• Get a good hook for your opening line.
• Then TAG in the opening (somewhere within the
  first 2-3 lines is good)
• Always include full names of major characters
  discussed, a basic outline of the story, and the
  conflict that drives it.
• Narrowing to thesis is speaking about the topics
  you include INTRODUCING THEM to the reader so
  the in-depth explanation later in the paper is
  already connected to the overall idea.
• End with thesis.

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Intro - Visual
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Conclusions

• These should
• NOT be a line by line summary
• NEVER repeat the thesis word for word
• NEVER be less than a strong paragraph
• Try to present connections/relationships between
  the material and examples to suggest the larger
  message and connection to the real world.
• This is like an a-ha moment