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Engish Chapt 5 Assignments
Engish Chapt 5 Assignments
Engish Chapt 5 Assignments
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UNIT 5 OVERVIEW
The focus of this unit will be the Consultation Draft - a full attempt at the researched essay,
whose purpose is to create discussion and direction for revisions. You will post your
Consultation Draft and exchange questions and comments with me, as well as other students.
Up to this point in the course, our writings have been brief enough that you may have been able
to read much of the postings and drafts written by other students. However, the Consultation
Drafts will be significantly longer, so you'll be assigned to read and respond to only one of
them.
1. Be posted onto the Blackboard Discussion forum for the unit on or before (no later
than) 5pm on Wednesday, 7/20.
2. Satisfy readers' desire for a well-planned text, with a fresh, engaging purpose and a
deliberate organizational structure.
3. Contain substantial material drawn from a minimum of six separate sources, purposefully
selected and used.
4. Employ strategies for paraphrase, summary, and quotation thoughtfully, thus avoiding
any inadvertent plagiarism.
5. Include in-text citations (also called parenthetical citations) throughout the draft,
accounting for how source material has been included. Please note that too many
citations in a draft is better than too few!
6. Include a bibliographic list - Works Cited (MLA), in generally correct form.
7. Show cross-referencing between the in-text citations and the bibliographic list.
8. Have appropriate formatting for readers' comfort - such as double spacing, indented
paragraphs, a standard font, one-inch margins, and page numbers.
Respond to one draft. Browse through the Chapter 4 Forum and pick out a draft that interests
you (if possible, pick one that no one has responded to yet). Write a reply to the writer of the
draft, including the following:
9. Tell the writer what engaged you most in the draft and, as a result, what you most look
forward to reading about in the completed essay.
10.Identify something in the draft that got you thinking about your own essay. How will
this writer's draft serve as an example to help you develop your own essay?
Your draft/post response is due by midnight on Friday, 7/22 and is worth 4 points.
Don't forget to have fun this week. Pressing through a draft of an essay this long is a
challenge. I know it's hard work. But it can also be creative, fascinating, generative, and
inspiring!