Presentations Friday, Monday and Wednesday

*Presentations will begin today and I will ask those listed for the other two days if they would prefer to go today.

Before presentations begin
*Turn off all computers - gets rid of noise and distraction
*Take out a piece of paper and pen - you will put your names on these and for each presentation you will write down comments and questions.
*A reminder that the presentations are mandatory for the participation, presentation and attendance grade.

Rough Draft Activities

*Attendance
*Quoting in text
-underlining (books) vs Quotes (short works)
-ellipses [...] - for omitions
-block quotes - 4 sentences or more in a quote
*Citation List and details
*Glossing Exercise
-make sure there are no repetitions
-if there are too many main points, look at puling them apart and elaborating more individually
*Highlighter Activity
-Highlight all quotes in your rough draft. 20% quotes, 80% you.
-Discussion of paraphrasing and its uses vs Summarizing and its uses
*Top Ten Mistakes Handout

The Details

*Attendance
*Reclaiming your topic: Steps 1 - 3.
*Introduction to Beginning your essay
-Hand out
-Choose 3 and compose in your wiki in your reasearch notes page
*How to end the essay
*Outline Exercise (1 piece of paper and 10 or more post-its
*For Wednesday, bring in your full rough draft for revisions and discussion. Also, bring in your works cited page - we will work on MLA