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Feedback: Comment on Your Sources! Everyone needs to say more about the CDs included in the essay. In other words, focus on the specific diction of your quotations. Fix this example: “He says ‘I’ll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife’ (Hozier). This woman is abusive either physically or mentally to the narrator but he knows he won’t leave her.” www.memes.com Yes, and go deeper with your analysis, too!

Feedback: Match Examples with Your Topic Sentence Many essays had examples that didn’t correspond with the topic sentence. Every example needs to connect back to the topic sentence; you’re building an argument. memegenerator.net Listen to Yoda.

Feedback: Watch Casual Vocabulary Your use of language is improving, but please strike the following terms from your writing: “Huge” Instead: “Thing” “You” memegenerator.net At least use them in your essays…

Feedback: Contractions Avoid contractions like “can’t,” “it’s,” and “won’t.” Exception: If the contraction is in a quotation that you’re citing, there’s no need to change it. You should not, however, including contractions in your own writing. www.mememaker.net Yasssssss

Feedback: Italics and Quotation Marks Plays, novels, and movies are always typed in italics. (If you handwrite the essay, you’ll acknowledge them by underlining them.) Poems and speeches are always placed within quotation marks (“”). Finally, commas and periods go INSIDE quotation marks. memegenerator.net Listen to Lord Vader!

Feedback: Type in MLA Format All essays should be in Times New Roman, 12 point. Second, the information in the upper left-hand corner is always double-spaced. Third, the header in the upper right-hand corner includes only your last name and the page number. www.quickmeme.com

Feedback: Use Turnitin.com Many of you didn’t upload your essays to Turnitin.com. (Nearly 50% of Period 2 didn’t bother. Ahem.) All students: If you don’t upload your essay to Turnitin.com by 9 PM tonight, you will lose points. creatememe.chucklesnetwork.com This meme’s for you, P2!