Your first take -home essay test will be due on May 16th. Here is some advice, to be discussed in class.
1.
Pay
attention to key words (in the question
itself as well as in your sources)
2.
Organize your paper during the
pre-writing stage, not the writing or revising stage. A well-thought-out plan
can save you from having to do a lot of reorganizing when the first draft is
completed
3.
The
introduction and the conclusion must refer to the question.
4.
Avoid
irrelevant detail. Ask yourself: What does the question require me to do?
5.
Don’t
provide your personal opinion if you are not required to do so.
6.
Revise
extensively.
7.
Quotations, paraphrases, or summaries: If you use the author's exact words, enclose
them in quotation marks, or indent passages of more than four lines Here’s some more info on quotations, (from the University of Toronto)
8.
And
some good points about topic sentences:
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