Quiz 1

• Recognize not only what a text says,
• but also how that text portrays the subject matter.

to supply with critical or explanatory notes; a form of active reading

• Evaluate purpose for reading
• Read with pencil in hand
• Read with intention of locating important ideas
• Review your marks after you read the selection

• •clearly identify where  important ideas and information are located
• •express the main ideas of a text
• •trace the development of ideas/arguments throughout a text
• •introduce a few of the reader’s thoughts and reactions

• What you will probably be expected to know about the
• reading once you have completed it. Concider:
• Paraphrase/Summary of Main Ideas - what is actually being said.
• Descriptive Outline – what techniques the writer uses
• Your Comments/Responses – your initial response/points of confusion

• Add to the reading experience and should not be too disruptive.
• Level "A"  Annotation
• Annotative markings and comments apparent in evey chapter on many pages(80 %)
• Clear focus on Author's Craft.(style)

™the act of using symbols to point out main ideas or points of import as you read and re-read a text; a form of annotating.

Makes it easier to review material, and is a good way of picking out specific language within a text that you may want to cite or quote in a piece of writing.

• Tendency to highlight more information than necessary.
• Least active form of annotating
• Can become a postponement of thinking and interacting with ideas in texts.

to say something in a different way, or to explain something to your reader/audience.

• Keeps your paper from being overloaded with quotes.
• To say something in a way that you think will be more understandable to your reader.

• Gathering alot of information into a relatively short statement.
• Main point important details are not.

• Putting another person's words directly into your own text.
• Quote texts when wording is worth repeating, when you
• want to cite the exact words of a KNOWN AUTHORITY on your topic, when you want to cite other's opinions to challenge or disagree, or to place emphasis.

Shows the organization of a piece of writing, breaking it down to show where ideas are introduced, where they are developed, and where any turns in the development occur.

• •Summarizing a topic/argument/etc.
• •Introducing an idea
• •Adding explanation
• •Giving examples
• •Providing factual evidence
• •Expanding or limiting the idea
• •Considering an opposing view
• •Dismissing a contrary view
• •Creating a transition
• •Stating a conclusion

• A collection of related sentences dealing with a single topic.
• Writer stays on track during drafting and revision.
• Assists your readers in following a piece of writing.
• Minimum 3 sentences, well developed 5 sentences.

One idea to one paragraph

• Unity
• Coherence
• Topic sentence
• Adequete developement

The entire paragraph should concern itself with a single focus.

• The trait that makes the paragraph easily understandable to a reader.
• correct grammer
• subject verb agreement

• A sentence that indicates in a general way what idea or thesis the paragraph is going to deal with.
• first sentence of paragraph
• connects with thesis statement
• TRANSITION + THESIS LINK + SUPPORT = TOPIC SENTENCE

• Deals with the level of discussion, understanding and acknowledging complexities.
• In a paragraph, the topic should be discussed fully and
• adequately

• •Use examples and illustrations
• •Cite data (facts, statistics,evidence, details, and others)
• •Examine testimony (what other people say such as quotes and paraphrases)
• •Define terms in the paragraph
• •Compare and contrast
• •Evaluate causes and reasons
• •Examine effects and consequences
• •Analyze the topic
• •Describe the topic
• •Offer a chronology of an event (time; in informative writing)

• •Claim/Topic Sentence (creates focus)
• •Reference/Evidence (creates Development)
• •Discussion (creates clarity and serves as a way to hear the author/writer’s voice)

• •I. Introduction
•   A.Thesis Statement will be the last sentence of your Introduction.
• II. Body 1
•   1. Claim
•   2. Reference/Evidence
•   3. Discussion
• III. Body 2
• IV. Body 3
• V. Conclusion
•   1. Paraphrase Thesis
•   2. Summarize Main Points
•   3. Create a significance for your reader

• Helps the reader distinguish between your words and
• what the text has to say.
• admits, confirms, suggests
• that the verbs listed are in present tense

• A parenthetical reference to the author and the page number where your passage can be found.
• An marks for the reader where the text’s ideas end

three or four lines of prose (about 30 words or more)  no quotation marks indented block. Period comes before the in-text citation.

• 1)Type out your quote.
• 2)Put quotation marks at the beginning and end of quote.
• 3)At the end of the quote, after the quotation marks, begin your parentheses.
• 4)In the parentheses, type the author’s last name and just the number of the page.

• 5)End the parenthetical, then put a period on the
• outside to end the sentence.

• A work cited page is an alphabetical list of sources that provides the reader with all the information so that he or
• she can find the source if they would like.
• The work cited page can be found on a page after you have completed the essay.

• 1)The heading (with page numbers in upper right corner).
• 2)The bibliographical entry
• 3)The handing indent