Writing your final draft

As you get back your work… You should be getting back your bibs and outlines by tomorrow night. Please go over the feedback, especially on the outline. The more you have on the outline, the easier your drafting will be. For clarification, please come see me in AcLab this week or next and we can conference about your draft. Conferences usually mean better grades because you get personalized help on your paper.

Your Final Copy Needs to Have: Cover Page (Title of Paper, which can be the research question, your name, my name, class, due date—all centered) Works Cited (all of the sources YOU USED + get rid of the annotations on them) Properly formatted paper Paper should have your name and page number in upper left hand corner EVERYTHING should be in Times New Roman 12 point font Proper margins 5 pages length All necessary citations and documentation

Example of a Good Outline Supporting Body Paragraph #1 Topic Sentence: A benefit from using embryonic stem cells is that is can help scientists learn and expand their knowledge about human development. Subtopic: “...researcher at the New England medical Center in Boston presented new data on an old cell type, pregnancy associated progenitor cells (PAPCs), which might help explain the deus ex machina mode of recovery in your patient.” (Patel) Explanation and connection: It just proves how stem cell research has led to discoveries that can help people in the future and now by giving an example of how a cell type has helped. This can easily be moved into a body paragraph. It just needs proper citing and a bit more explanation.

Quote or Paraphrase? One thing to consider for your final draft is whether or not to use direct quotes. In general, use direct quotations only if you have a good reason. Most of your paper should be in your own words. In a literary analysis paper, for example, you''ll want to quote from the literary text rather than summarize, because part of your task in this kind of paper is to analyze the specific words and phrases an author uses. In research papers, you should quote from a source to show that an authority supports your point to present a position or argument to critique or comment on to include especially moving or historically significant language to present a particularly well-stated passage whose meaning would be lost or changed if paraphrased or summarized You should summarize or paraphrase when what you want from the source is the idea expressed, and not the specific language used to express it you can express in fewer words what the key point of a source is

Quote vs. Paraphrase? Direct Quote: According to Roger Sipher, a solution to the perceived crisis of American education is to "Abolish compulsory-attendance laws and allow only those who are committed to getting an education to attend" (3) Paraphrase: Roger Sipher concludes his essay by insisting that schools have failed to fulfill their primary duty of education because they try to fill multiple social functions (17).

MLA Citations Make use of the MLA packet in front of you. It offers suggestions as to how to cite particular examples of research, like what to do when you have no page numbers… All information, quoted or paraphrased, must be cited.

Writing Help Section on Website There are lots of documents to guide you in the writing process— Signal phrases Verb choices Grammar/proofreading Each day before the due date, we will do a mini-writing lesson to make the drafting process a bit smoother for you.

Final Draft is due on Friday, April 8th