20th class
Brad Johnson Engl. 81, 20th class
For your own personal tracking:
1. What are you writing about? Answer this with: what topic are you writing about?
2. Why should we care about your topic?
3. What is the purpose of your involvement in activism or volunteerism? What change do you want to see in the world, your community, state, or country?
4. Is there a website or address that we can go to for further information?
5. What do you already know about this topic?
6. How much information will come from articles that you have read: 10%, 20%, 50% ?
7. Any information you use from an article must be in your own words unless you use a quote.
Note:
1. Keep the articles that you used for your paper and include these with your paper.
2. When doing research papers, you do not want to have a collection of quotes. You add
these to your own ideas. You are inviting a few people (these are the people who
wrote the research articles) into a dialogue about the idea you researched. These
people should not dominate because this paper is about you. You are educating and
informing us about your topic.
3. Where and how do you see yourself active in your topic?
4. Read an article several times, set it aside, absorb the information, and then put ideas
into your own words.
5. When reading these articles write a brief summary – write your own idea outside each
paragraph – in the margin.
6. Then bring these sentences, these ideas, down to the bottom and synthesize what you
have read. This means put into your own words, in an organized manner, what
you have read.
7. REPEAT: Put information into your own words.
8. If using a direct quote, punctuate it correctly. Example: “Ask not what your country
can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
HW: Write PRL’s for partners: minimum ½ page to receive any credit. Workshop started today but will continue tomorrow.
NOTE: IF YOU DON’T HAVE YOUR PAPER WRITTEN, DO THIS FOR HOMEWORK. DO NOT GET BEHIND!!! THIS IS WEEK 6 !!!! GET TO IT !!
LET YOUR WRITING BLOSSOM !!
