How I grade your WOD

Step #1: Basic Conventions etc. Needs correct grammar, word choice, sentence fluency

Step #2: Evidence, Evidence, Evidence! Should have 2 pieces of evidence in each body paragraph.

Step #3: Lead ins A sentence can NOT just be a quote Bad example: “At the age of five or 6 children have trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality” (O’Sullivan). Use the word wall (and worksheet) for power verbs Make sure it flows as a full sentence. NO: Advertisements are bad, “At the age of five or 6 children have trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality (O’Sullivan). Yes: O’Sullivan argues that advertisements harm our children when he found that, “At the age of five or 6 children have trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality.”

Step #4: Citation Format All of your facts should have citations In-text citation Example: A lead in including the author or title of the article, “interesting quote.” According to the chart, “To what extent do you trust the following forms of advertising?” 92% of consumers trust recommendations from people they know. OR Parenthetical citation A lead in phrase using a power verb from the word wall, “Quote word for word from the source” (Author Last name OR “Title”). Example: A study found that 92% of consumers trust recommendations from people they know (“To what extent do you trust the following forms of advertising?”). NO: Source A, B etc. DO NOT QUOTE CHARTS! In order to have quotation marks you must take the words exactly in order from the text.

Step #5: Essay format 4 paragraphs total 8 sentences in each body paragraph

Step #6: Body Paragraphs SEE sets Topic Sentence SEE Set (3) Conclusion Sentence

Step #7: Introduction Attention grabber NO! Have you ever wondered…? Did you know…? Advertisements are everywhere Lots of people see advertisements Background Lead up to if your thesis is going to support advertisements or not Thesis Effect Two reasons

Step #8: Title Creative! NO: WOD Advertisements Advertisements are Good The effects of advertisements

Step #9: First person No I, me, us, our, we

Step #10: Contractions/Abbreviations No contractions Can’t, won’t, don’t etc. Don’t = do not No abbreviations Ads (should be advertisements)

Bonus Step: MLA Always: Header Heading On timed (in class) essays: *Not double spaced!* On untimed (take home) essays: Times New Roman 12 point font Double Spaced 1” margins

Power Verbs Use these when introducing a quote! No “said” After reading strong evidence against his findings, the author admits, “The experiment could have been conducted better” (Author Last Name).

Author Agrees Column Admits Affirms Agrees Concedes Concurs Grants

Find Someone Finish the missing column in your paper

Bad Paper Look at the numbers On your “Wow. That was a bad paper!” worksheet, write down what was wrong with that number How to fix it

#1 Header is not in MLA format Martin needs to be in Times New Roman 12 point font Martin 1

#2 Header is not in MLA format The page number needs to go after the last name Martin 1

#3 Heading is not in MLA format This line should say English 12-5

#4 Heading date is not in MLA format Should go Day Month Year 8 September 2015

#5 Title is not creative Change WOD to something more unique Examples…

#6 Bad attention grabber “Have you wondered…” question needs to be changed Examples…

#7 No first person “I” needs to be changed (and bad sentence in general)

#8 No abbreviations Ads needs to be advertisements

#9 Bad conventions Needs to be changed to “you buy”

#10 Missing lead in Need to include “Title” or author

#11 Incorrect citation format Format should be period quotation mark (Lead in, “quote.”)

#12 Incorrect citation format Title of the chart needs to be named

#13 Incorrect citation format Charts/visuals do not need quotation marks-this full sentence is not in the source. Needs to be paraphrased According to a chart by Nelson indicates that 58% of people trust branded websites,

#14 Incorrect citation format Cupla is an author name, only titles should be in quotation marks

#15 Incorrect citation format Use the author last name or title, not the source letter The article “Advertising Gets Another Bum Rap” explains, “advertising is teaching, pure and simple” (Cupla).

#16 Incorrect citation format Only a lead in or in-text citation necessary

#17 Incorrect citation formatORFirst Person Quotes need to follow a lead in naturally, it should sound like part of the sentence “We” needs to be changed

#18 Incorrect citation format Quote needs to be after advertising”

#19 Essay format Paragraphs need to be indented

#20 No contractions Shouldn’t becomes should not

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