Day 12
Mon. Mar. 1
Speakers: Share TSIS and Keys for Writers chapters
Share new phrase
Citations and references review
Homework
➤ Work on your final revision
Your final draft is due Sunday at midnight. I’m happy to look at a new draft of it between now and then, but please remember I won’t be in the office on the weekend.
➤ Apply a lesson from the chapter you read to your essay
Recently you read a chapter from They Say, I Say or Keys for Writers that you thought would be particularly relevant to an issue in your writing that you’re looking to improve. Please apply something you learned from the chapter to your essay — use the advice you read to improve some part of your essay or some aspect of it.
Using comment bubbles, please mark the changes you made and explain why you made those changes and how they relate to the advice you got from your reading. Upload your new version of your essay to the Box folder “12-Final revision in progress.”
Note: If you haven’t done a mini-presentation yet (Derrick, Xiaoyi, Jerry, Tianji, Kaige) please be ready to do yours next class. Please spend 2-3 minutes explaining the ideas from TSIS or Keys for Writers that you found most useful, and illustrate those ideas using specific examples from the text of your essay. You can bring print-outs to share or simply plug your computer into the projector to show us on the screen.
➤ Read your classmates’ essays and be ready to give them feedback
We may have time to do peer feedback in class on Wednesday. Please read your two classmates’ essays and be ready to share your reactions to them in class and give them advice about how to improve it. I’ve grouped you with classmates who are focusing on similar issues when revising. I’ll message your group over WeChat with more detailed instructions about how to approach peer feedback.
Group 1: Jiaheng, Derrick, Tianji
Group 2: Wu You, Rachael, Jerry
Group 3: Kaige, George, Rixin
Group 4: Tanya, Jingheng, Xiaoyi
➤ Annotate your reference list
Print your reference list and mark the following things:
For each reference, identify what type of source it refers to. (Book? Academic article? Website? etc)
Mark each part of each reference and write what that thing refers to. (E.g. Author name, book title, article type, page numbers, etc.)
(Note: If the reference list for your final essay is particularly short, or if you want feedback on a different one, you can use a reference list from another essay you wrote, including ones for other classes.)